Friday, February 13th 2009
Microsoft to Open a Chain of Retail Stores for its Products
Software giant Microsoft is looking for another spot that will make the company's products more widespread than ever. It plans to open a chain of own retail stores that will sell all Microsoft software product including Windows and other applications as well as personal compuetrs running Windows operating system, cellphones running Windows Mobile OS and last but not least the company's Xbox videogame console. Microsoft has also appointed David Porter, a former Wal-Mart Stores executive, to lead the new initiative through its way up. Porter spent 25 years at Wal-Mart Stores in roles of increasing responsibility and seniority in store operations, merchandising and information technology. In his last role at Wal-Mart, Porter was vice president and general merchandise manager of Entertainment, where he served as a strategic point of influence throughout the Wal-Mart business. Porter's first day at Microsoft as corporate vice president of Retail Stores will be Feb. 16, 2009.
"There are tremendous opportunities ahead for Microsoft to create a world-class shopping experience for our customers," Porter said. "I am excited about helping consumers make more informed decisions about their PC and software purchases, and we'll share learnings from our stores with our existing retail and OEM partners that are critical to our success." That's all we know for now, key details around the new retail stores are still to be worked out. We'll keep you posted if anything new pops up.
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"There are tremendous opportunities ahead for Microsoft to create a world-class shopping experience for our customers," Porter said. "I am excited about helping consumers make more informed decisions about their PC and software purchases, and we'll share learnings from our stores with our existing retail and OEM partners that are critical to our success." That's all we know for now, key details around the new retail stores are still to be worked out. We'll keep you posted if anything new pops up.
41 Comments on Microsoft to Open a Chain of Retail Stores for its Products
In the world of speed and technology , it would be truly fanny to see some one on the street with a speaker in his mouth to yield " Here here nice windows .. get them people, get them " :D
Have a nice day.
I'd really like to see some microsoft stores, their business model would be the same as pcworld here in the uk selling complete oem pcs as well as microsoft software and hardware, so they should be able to sell enough to be profitable(similar margins on the oem pcs sold, however for each pc sold microsoft already gets liscence money for the windows liscence on the machine, so the stores don't need margins as big as other oem pc brick and mortar stores, possibly leading to lower prices).
Would also be nice to see copies of windows 64bit OSs without the stupid premium the stores put on them, they cost the same to the store but they decide that because it's 64bit they should charge more...:shadedshu
Thats what MS waiting or hoping for ... it aint go to happen.
It did not happen with Vista , it will not happen now .
They did one smart thing in the past , they separated the Home windows from the Pro Windows.
Win 98 & 2K pro .... now that they unite them at XP Pro , you do not need more Windows,
just software to run on them .
This days very few people buy because of fashion .. if there is some fashion lovers , who run after every latest release and praise the technology fashion as new God on earth , thats very few young ones .if you are one , name to me the number of security layers on Vista.
This will be different for vista>win7 as vista machines are still relatively young so people will be prepared to upgrade them instead of replacing them as what happened with xp machines when vista came out. To be fair vista sold a lot of liscences on new machines, a lot more than some people realise (over a year ago microsoft was claiming over 100million vista copies sold, now that is inflated due to that not being the number of users, but considering that was over a year ago and people will have been buying more since then it's safe to say well over 100 million copies are in use now, i'd hardly call that a failure, more than enough for a sandstorm.
Our nature is to upgrade to the latest and greatest and insulting people because you can't understand that is rude, as well as misplaced since quite a few consumer level hard drives don't last much longer than 6 years in my experience and when they fail average joe and ordinary business go out and buy a new machine instead of bandaging up the 6 year old, faded machine in the corner (a replacment would not cost much to get hardware capable of what the average consumer/business needs).
Every post you make, confirms more and more that you have no clue what you are talking about.