Neowin News Feed for: Microsoft store

Microsoft Stores to live stream, give prizes for Xbox reveal

John Callaham — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:00:32 +0100

The many retail Microsoft Store locations in the US and Canada will not only be hosting the live stream of the company's next Xbox reveal on Tuesday, they will be giving out some prizes as well. Read more...

Additional Microsoft specialty store opening dates confirmed

John Callaham — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:08:27 +0100

Microsoft has announced it will open four more smaller specialty retail store locations in the US in late May and in June, including stores in California, Texas, Michigan and Washington. Read more...

L.A. Microsoft Store to host event with Star Trek Into Darkness cast members

John Callaham — Sat, 04 May 2013 00:31:10 +0100

The Los Angeles Microsoft Store at the Westfield Century City shopping center will hold a contest that will pick 100 people to meet cast members of Star Trek Into Darkness at the store May 15th. Read more...

Microsoft hiring for second retail store in Bellevue, Washington

John Callaham — Fri, 03 May 2013 22:47:16 +0100

Microsoft is hiring for a unannounced specialty store in Bellevue, Washington, which would be the second retail store location near to Microsoft's Redmond headquarters. Read more...

New Microsoft Store planned for Jacksonville, Fla.

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:41:55 +0100

Microsoft is in discussions with the city of Jacksonville, Fla., to open a new 4,975-square-foot store. No lease has been signed, but plans have already been submitted for the store. Read more...

Microsoft Store redesigns its website with big images

John Callaham — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:12:12 +0100

Microsoft has quietly launched a new design of its retail store website with larger main images and an overall less cluttered layout compared to its previous version. Read more...

Microsoft opens another store in Salt Lake City

John Callaham — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:42:59 +0100

Microsoft has now opened its latest large scale Microsoft Store location, this time at the City Creek Center in Salt Lake City, with another store opening planned for Beachwood, Ohio on Saturday. Read more...

Microsoft opens two more smaller specialty retail stores in the U.S. today

John Callaham — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:13:49 +0100

Microsoft has now confirmed it has opened up two more of its smaller specialty retail stores in the U.S. today, with plans to open up three more locations later in April. Read more...

Microsoft confirms openings of five specialty stores in April

John Callaham — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:20:09 +0000

Microsoft has finally confirmed plans to open at least five more of its smaller specialty stores in April in the US, after job openings for those stores previously surfaced online. Read more...

Microsoft Store now offering Nokia Lumia 920 for free on contract

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:32:20 +0000

The Microsoft Store website is currently selling the Windows Phone-based Nokia Lumia 920 for free if you sign up for a new AT&T account, along with the 8 GB version of the HTC Windows Phone 8X. Read more...

Microsoft launches new Chinese web store on Tmall.com

John Callaham — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:07:05 +0000

Microsoft has announced it has launched a new official online web store for China at MicrosoftStore.Tmall.com, following the launch of its own Microsoft Store website in October. Read more...

Microsoft to open even more specialty retail stores in US

John Callaham — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:37:16 +0000

Microsoft's careers website indicates that the company will be opening even more specialty retail stores in the US in the near future, including stores in Sacramento, Providence and more. Read more...

Microsoft to open specialty retail stores in Philadelphia and Tampa

John Callaham — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:07:52 +0000

Microsoft's careers page shows that the company is hiring for two previously unannounced specialty retail stores locations in Philadelphia and Tampa, adding to the company's growing list of stores. Read more...

Could Microsoft sweep in to buy Nook Media?

John Callaham — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:00:31 +0000

Microsoft already owns part of Nook Media, which is mostly owned by Barnes and Noble, but one person is speculating that Microsoft could jump in and buy all of Barnes and Noble. Read more...

Surface Pro availability update, plus download music from TV ad

John Callaham — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:32:28 +0000

The Microsoft Store website once again has 128 GB Surface Pro units available for sale, after going out of stock earlier this week. You can also download the music from the recent Surface Pro TV ad. Read more...

Microsoft Store website out of stock, again, of the 128GB Surface Pro

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:32:18 +0000

The Microsoft Store website now shows that it is "out of stock" of of the 128GB version of the Surface Pro tablet, although some retail stores are reporting they have some units on their shelves. Read more...

Seattle Microsoft Store quickly sells out of new 128 GB Surface Pro shipment

John Callaham — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:09:47 +0000

The Microsoft Store location in Seattle managed to get a shipment of 50 units of the 128 GB Surface Pro tablets, but the store sold out of their shipment in less than an hour. Read more...

Some Microsoft Stores may have Surface Pro 128 GB units Tuesday or Wednesday

John Callaham — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:15:51 +0000

A quick check of Microsoft Stores' retail locations indicated that the 128 GB version of the Surface Pro tablet is still unavailable but a new shipment may be coming in Tuesday or Wednesday. Read more...

The Google Store - coming soon to a mall near you?

Andy Weir — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:03:53 +0000

Is Google planning to launch its own retail stores? A report claims the search giant will open its first stores this year, offering demos of Google Glass, and selling Nexus and Chrome OS devices. Read more...

128 GB Surface back up for pre-order, shipping by March 1st

Tim Schiesser — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:25:12 +0000

The 128 GB version of Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is back up for pre-order via the online Microsoft Store, with units shipping by March 1st if you're quick enough to claim one of the new stock. Read more...