While most stores have darkened windows and locked doors, some opened despite the warnings not to.
However, other developers are more positive about the opportunities the Windows stores offer to showcase their products, and believe the design of the touchscreen interface will encourage users to install more apps.
Shoppers were flocking to the department stores with the bright windows and expensive merchandise.
If you recall browsing through software stores, you remember a Windows version available to just about anything.
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When it hits stores later this year, Windows Me will doubtless generate a similar, Millennium-sized level of shrink-wrapped excitement.
There are no boarded-up windows or pound stores around our wonderful mid-Victorian terminus.
Phones go on sale this weekend, with 65 Microsoft stores carrying the full line of Windows Phone 8 smartphones available to U.S. consumers.
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Back then, the windows of the bigger stores didn't have very much to offer, but no one came up to you and struck you in the face with a whip.
And in true Microsoft fashion, we went big: 75 stores in three years and 30 pop-up stores to celebrate the recent launch of Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface!
Microsoft is set to open 30 holiday pop-up stores to showcase the new Surface tablet and Windows 8.
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The VoterHub app is available today for Android and Windows Mobile users in their app stores, and will be available in the Apple app store soon.
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Covering November, December, and January (including the full holiday season), this was the period when Windows Phone 8 finally hit the stores, and was going to be available for consumers.
The franchisee can then call the owners of those ten stores to see how many drive-through windows they have, whether they have Playplaces, how many staff to hire, and so on.
Windows 8 machines are sitting in stores.
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Our track record of launching Samsung devices and Windows Phones is incredibly strong and our dedicated Samsung zones in our Oxford Street and Westfield London stores provide the ultimate destination for anyone wanting to buy this Samsung device with Windows Phone.
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Developers can still sell titles outside Microsoft's stores without certification on computers powered by the full Windows 8 system.
According to NPD, stores in the United States sold 13% fewer Windows devices over the late October to first week in December of this year than in the same period last year.
When she was convicted, Gucci stores around the world displayed sterling silver handcuffs in their windows.
There are lots of windows, extra lighting and, in some stores, gigantic bags filling the role of a supermarket cart.
Zara's stores have won awards for their decoration and their shop windows.
Around us, stores in the Chinese-dominated downtown remain shuttered, the windows above blank and empty behind bars of iron.
On display at its booth, Microsoft had many of the nine Windows Phone 7 devices that are already available in stores.
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Despite its beautiful machines, its smart and entertaining advertising, its retail stores and its compelling argument that its platform is simply better than Windows, Apple's share of the computing world continues to slide, and now stands at less than 3% globally, according to Gartner Dataquest estimates.
Windows Marketplace has long been the smallest of the major app stores.
In most stores, the pizzas didn't fit through the drive-through windows.
That's why we're willing to stand in parking lots at midnight at computer stores throughout the world anxiously awaiting the arrival of the next version of Windows.
The campaign starts this week with Windows Phone events featuring Meet Your Match challenges in malls and Microsoft Stores all over the US, as well as in the UK, France and Germany.
The Gateway is a Windows application that authenticates users with single sign-on, connects to corporate content stores, and monitors documents for updates.
If the Ativ label makes its way into stores, though, it may give Samsung a much catchier (if not entirely intuitive) name for its Windows devices than Series 5 Hybrid PC.
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