The Microsoft Store experienced 47 percent less foot fall traffic than the Apple Store.
FORBES: Comparing Sales/Traffic At An Apple And A Microsoft Store During Black Friday
The Xbox 360 was the biggest seller at the Microsoft Store, accounting for all but two of the purchases witnessed.
FORBES: Comparing Sales/Traffic At An Apple And A Microsoft Store During Black Friday
Shoppers purchased 17.2 items per hour at the Apple Store, compared to only 3.5 items per hour at the Microsoft Store.
FORBES: Comparing Sales/Traffic At An Apple And A Microsoft Store During Black Friday
The new tablets will be sold at all Microsoft store locations.
Surface will be available for purchase beginning Oct. 26, 2012, at all Microsoft Store locations in the United States and Canada, including in all 34 new holiday stores.
So back to the Microsoft store and the cheerful reps.
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An employee in an adjacent store in the mall in Phoenix told us she sees plenty of foot traffic in the Microsoft store, but has no idea about sales.
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It seems that over Black Friday Munster and his team were busy, spending 8 hours keeping an eye on the Apple Store in the Mall of America in Minneapolis, and two hours watching the Microsoft Store opposite it.
FORBES: Comparing Sales/Traffic At An Apple And A Microsoft Store During Black Friday
Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray compared purchases at the Apple Store to purchases at the Microsoft store at Mall of America on Black Friday and found that Apple sold almost 5 times as many items per hours observed as did the Microsoft store.
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Under the cloud-computing model, Microsoft would store Office programs on its own servers and deliver them to customers online.
The reservation card does guarantee that if a customer visits a Microsoft retail store or holiday store by 12:00 p.m. on October 26 and presents the reservation card, they will be able to purchase a Surface.
We've gotta give Microsoft props forwarding on to a competitor like that (or, at least props for following the terms of a 2005 legal settlement), and in its defense, the URGE store Microsoft started with MTV is still going strong, but with Real slowly moving over to their own DRM, FairUse4WM alive and kicking, and now the MSN Music shut-down, things aren't looking great for PlaysForSure.
Now, instead of offering up fairly generic tracks at fairly generic prices, the MSN Music store will offer prospective listeners the choice of hopping over to Microsoft's Zune store, or Real's Rhapsody.
Some of the deals are just available in stores, while others are offered only at Microsoft's online store.
Distribution is only through the Microsoft (app) Store and requires approval.
However, some reports suggest that a month prior to the launch of Windows 8 there are only about 2, 000 apps available for it in Microsoft's Windows Store.
At the Westfield Valley Fair mall in Santa Clara, about nine miles from Sunnyvale, Jonathan Lamb stood with his friends in line outside Microsoft's new store armed for battle.
When Windows 8 went on sale a few days ago, Microsoft said the Windows Store was home to thousands of apps, though it declined to provide a precise number.
The caveat is that Windows RT devices can only install third-party software from Microsoft's own Windows Store.
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Through these agreements, Microsoft is funding in-store training for consumers who purchase these Nokia models with a data plan.
Like many people, my buddy Lindy has a work e-mail address and uses Microsoft Outlook to read and store e-mails.
While Microsoft opened up its online store earlier this week to pre-orders for its upcoming new Surface tablet, customers are now looking a three week (or more) shipping delay.
Until November, access to this store, which Microsoft calls Windows Marketplace for Mobile, will be limited to developers who are familiar with Microsoft and have contacted its staff to pitch their apps.
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The company made no ambitious efforts to set up its own online music store to rival Apple's iTunes Store, as Microsoft did with its Zune Marketplace and Sony tried with its Connect Music Service, scheduled to be shuttered next year.
Microsoft has quite a bit in store for the Zune faithful with its new Zune version 2.5 software update.
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To fight Microsoft it will encourage users to store their files not on their personal computers but on Google's remote machines.
This time around Microsoft isn't offering to store all the data.
The march to the launch of Windows 8 soldiers on, as Microsoft has now opened the Windows Store for submissions from individuals in anticipation of the grand OS launch on October 26th.
In addition Microsoft will offer a separate desktop app store with a different set of rules focused on security and compatibility requirements.
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