Microsoft's concept apes Apple's Genius Bar, but the stores may have to tackle problems from all PC brands Microsoft today confirmed that plans for its upcoming retail stores, which leaked to a ...

Microsoft's U.S. Small and Midmarket Solutions & Partners Group (SMS&P) has tapped OnForce, a Lexington, Mass.-based online services marketplace for IT professionals, to maintain lead distribution for ...

One of the biggest questions about the recently proposed Microsoft retail stores is what they will look like and what they will sell. The challenge for the software giant is how to sell its most ...

Microsoft’s upcoming retail stores won’t just be similar in concept to Apple’s — they’ll also be similar in location. Microsoft will open its retail stores near Apple’s existing locations, a company ...

Microsoft’s huge new retail store in Bellevue Square – two stores down from the Apple store – opens November 18th, and company has come up with an unusual incentive to get people to check it out. The ...

It may be telling that when Apple decided to get into retail stores, it hired the vice president of merchandising from Target to run them. Why do Apple stores look so much like Gap stores? Could it be ...

The Microsoft store is located at a mall in Scottsdale, Ariz. The company's Web site bills the design of the store as "uniquely Microsoft." Shoppers will be able to purchase computers loaded with ...

Microsoft Corp.’s decision to open retail stores is a calculated risk that will likely prove a more challenging endeavor than Apple Inc.’s move into retail eight years ago. Microsoft said quietly last ...

Microsoft Corp. opened its first retail store on Thursday to hundreds of people who waited for as long as 12 hours to get freebies and to see if the place is as cool as it was hyped to be. Microsoft ...

Brad Slavin, who owns a San Diego-based search engine optimization firm call Webheat, attracted attention earlier this week with a video he claims to have taken in the Microsoft store in Mission Viejo ...

The relationship between Microsoft Retail Media, a division of Microsoft Advertising, and Mood Media company Vibenomics might seem complicated, but it is not. It is actually as simple as it can be for ...

Microsoft opened its first retail store at a mall in Scottsdale, Ariz, Thursday. The opening coincided with the launch of Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 7. Apple has more than 200 retail ...