Microsoft has announced it will launch a "store within a store" devoted to Windows products at 500 Best Buy locations in the US and more than 100 Best Buy and Future Shop locations in Canada. More...
Microsoft's careers website indicates the company is hiring for three unannounced specialty store locations in the U.S., including McAllen, Texas; Boca Raton, Florida; and Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. More...
Microsoft has announced that the general public will be able to check out the Xbox One console and controller on June 10th at an event in the Microsoft Store in Los Angeles. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
Microsoft is handing out $100 vouchers for all purchases of PCs over $699 until February 19th; unfortunately the deal excludes the Surface range, and the voucher can't be used for Surface products More...
Panos Panay, the leader of the Surface tablet team, said during a Twitter chat that Microsoft will be shipping more units of the 128 GB version of the Surface Pro to select stores by Saturday. More...
Apple CEO Tim Cook said today the iPad would not be as successful as it has been without all those Apple stores. It's more than possible Microsoft is trying to replicate that success with the Surface. More...
The Microsoft Store website in the US is now sold out of the first shipment of the 64 GB version of the Surface Pro tablet, about 16 hours after first going on sale. More...
The 128 GB version of the Surface Pro tablet is already sold out of its initial shipment run on the Microsoft Store website, although there are units available online on other sites. More...
The Windows 8 Pro version of Microsoft's Surface tablet has started to go on display in some US retail stores, with sales of the new device set to begin on February 9th. More...
The Microsoft Store website in Australia is the first place in the world people can go ahead and purchase Office 2013, showing that the company will offer the software by each country's time zone. More...
At least some Microsoft Store retail locations are allowing people to pick up reservation cards that will guarantee they will be able to buy a Surface Pro tablet when it goes on sale February 9th. More...
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Microsoft has shut down the massive Microsoft Store NYC location in Times Square, which was originally designed to be opened temporarily as a "holiday store" for the launch of Windows 8 and Surface. More...
Microsoft is giving people who pre-order a selection of upcoming Xbox 360 games 1600 Microsoft Points for free for each order if they buy them from the Microsoft Store website. More...
Microsoft has announced this morning the location of the next six Microsoft stores that will include Texas, Ohio, Florida, San Francisco, St Louis and Salt Lake City and they will open in 2013. More...
A new rumor claims, via unnamed sources, that Microsoft's Surface RT tablet will finally go on sale in other outlets in the US beyond its Microsoft Store locations before the end of 2012. More...
Ballmer told a Microsoft stockholder today at its annual meeting that their purpose of building Microsoft Store locations is to "sell, sell, sell" lots of the products that can make Microsoft money. More...
Piper Jaffray's analyst team compared Black Friday sales at the Mall of America and found that Apple's store was far busier than the activity at the Microsoft Store, with no sales of the Surface. More...
There are quite a few Windows 8 related deals today for Cyber Monday 2012, and we have hit the Internet to find just a few of the software and hardware sales deals. More...
A new report claims Microsoft is now talking with UK retail landlords to expand their Microsoft Store locations in that part of the world, and will also review their current retail store strategy. More...
Microsoft has announced that it will have special deals for Black Friday 2012 later this week, including a $50 discount for a second Touch or Type Cover if people purchase a Surface bundle. More...
Microsoft has opened its first permanent Microsoft Store outside the US as it launched its Toronto location in Canada earlier this morning at the Yorkdale Shopping Centre. More...
Microsoft has announced that, since it opened its first Microsoft retail store in 2009, over 15 million people have visited the 60 permanent and temporary retail locations. More...
All models of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet are now in stock in the United States, including the $499 model without a Touch Cover. Now is the time to get in on the action if you haven't already More...
The $499 32GB version of Microsoft's new Surface tablet is still listed as "out of stock" on all of the company's Microsoft Store websites around the world, except for China. More...
Two separate analysts claim that their surveys show that sales of Microsoft's Surface tablet have been strong so far in the company's retail store locations and that there have been few returns. More...
Microsoft opened up its latest full Microsoft Store retail location in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is the first non-holiday store to open outside the continental United States. More...
A number of Microsoft Store locations in the US had lines outside their buildings on Friday as people waited to get inside to buy some of the first Surface tablets. More...
Some people who were the first to pre-order the Surface tablet from the UK Microsoft Store website have seen their shipments delayed. Microsoft is offering those people a £50 coupon code. More...
Many models of Microsoft's Surface tablet are now showing as taking three weeks to ship when ordered online from the Microsoft Store website, including all three models in the United States. More...
Microsoft has changed its stance on "mature" content in the Windows Store, as it will allow games rated PEGI 18 onto the Store before the end of the year so content is on par across Europe and the USA More...