Microsoft to open more than 50 Retail stores
Microsoft’s COO Kevin Turner recently at company’s worldwide partners conference announced than upto 75 more Retail stories chain will be opened by company throughout US in coming 3 years time (2-3 years actually). This is in addition to already about 10 retail stores it has in US. This may be great for people who hate buying for some reason Microsoft’s Product from AT&T, Verizon stores and will benefit great by actually buying from company’s stores where they can get all company’s product at one stop including its Worldwide partners product. So not will company sell its own Windows OS phones, accessories, Microsoft strategy games like Age of Empires and various work related softwares but also sell its affiliated Partners products. In future, Microsoft has several times hinted they would like to go out of US to open more retail stores, probably in Europe region.
Its is but obvious, opening about 75 stores, the company will sell other products also, not only its own products. I have always believed that online companies should have offline presence, the reason why travel company MakeMyTrip clicked in India due to people’s trust in ‘What they see is what they get’ attitude. Opening about 75 Stores throughout US, it will be expected to cover major cities of US. No definite data has been released by Microsoft about its stores location yet.