Details about Microsoft’s retail stores have been kept heavily under wraps ahead of their fall launch, at least until a massive slide show of early concepts for the stores leaked online. Intended to compete head-on with Apple’s retail stores, the stores may feature an Answers Bar for dealing with product issues, kiosks and wall space devoted to new hardware and software, and possibly even birthday parties for a fee.
– Microsoft
has announced several times that it intends to open retail stores in fall 2009
as part of its new competitive strategy. Despite speculation in the
blogosphere, though, Microsoft offered few details about the retail experience
it hopes will take some air out of Apple’s
sails.
Then so…