Microsoft Opening More Retail Store Locations
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing
Microsoft is expanding their network of retail stores in the coming years. There’s only a handful of them now, but over the next 3 years they are going to expand to at least 75 new stores around the country.
Via Neowin:
Reply #2 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:40 PM
Whole new meaning to hardware acceleration.
Interesting when you consider that the software (specifically Office) will be in a stripped down form (Word and Excel) on new computers, and Office will be an online app. Well, maybe not so odd when you consider that MS still sells a lot of hardware.
Reply #3 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:42 PM
Hm, that map of existing stores is wrong. I've been to the Lone Tree, Colorado store many times, and it is not in Wyoming
Reply #4 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:42 PM
Wow, and it looks like they have Indianapolis on the list! Nice! 
Reply #5 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 6:25 PM
And of course, Kansas City isn't important enough to have one, not that I really care that much about Microsoft.
Reply #6 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:01 PM
Yea, they screw us Kansas City Gamers....oh well.
Reply #7 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:42 PM
It seems that MS has not got the hang of that internet thingy.
Would this be because they are moving into the mobile market? Compete against the apple stores?
Reply #8 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:55 PM
That's pretty much exactly what the MS Stores are, right down to the floorplan. Except with a corner for Xboxs in the back . They have a little more room to walk around though, which I like. A surprisingly large amount of people do actually go to the one by me, although I guess if that weren't the case they (probably) wouldn't be building more.
Reply #9 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:27 PM
I don't know, that didn't stop Gateway...
Reply #10 Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:51 AM
My family and I must have been one of the very few people to go to a Gateway store, where my dad put in the order for the computer I am using now, while my brother and I played the Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast demo which caused us to get the full version as our first PC game.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:33 PM
I really wasn't aware of the fact Microsoft had 'brick and mortor' stores.