Microsoft to open another 75 retail stores

Yawn.

Awesome, I am on my fourth Xbox 360. Now instead of mailing it to TX, I can bring it to the Microsoft store and swap for a new one.

The current stores map looks odd. As the original article's commenters have pointed out, they marked the Lone Tree, CO store in Wyoming.

what success? I have never read one word about them. They don't exist.

My local mall has a MS Store and an Apple Store. The MS store is almost twice as big as the Apple Store, but there are usually half as many people in the MS Store. And half of those are kids playing games on the Xboxes.

ROFLOL - "after the success of the first eleven stores". Too funny. They are such clowns.

I actually think it would be good, if they mirror the Apple experience, with a Genius Bar, etc.

Think about it. Now, having a Windows PC and something goes wrong, you scour the internet and maybe find a few things people tried, etc. The manufacturer says "it's the software" and MS says "it's the hardware"

Go to an MS Genius and they can at least get their hands on what the issue is, experience it, and hopefully help.

this is more of microsoft coming to the game late and trying to be more like Apple with their retail outlets. The biggest issue I see with Windows is and has always been the saturation of machines that they dont have control over the internals. Therefore the hardware from the get go is piecemeal and never really jives. Even within the big companies there are so many different combinations of systems that don't really work well at everything because of fragmentation. We have seen this with the PC and we have seen this now with Andorid OS on phones and we will see it with Windows 7. I know some people will say but the options give competition and help growth...does it though? I feel that sure the companies can make more machines etc, but does it really help the consumers? When there are too many variations there is always a chance for confusion. With Apple there are what like two imacs, three macbook pros, two macbook airs, a couple variants of the macpro, the iphones, atv and a few other here and there products...you can almost count all the machines running mac osx on your fingers and toes and ios on one hand, more or less...there isn't fragmentation and there isn't confusion (or not nearly as much) nuff said.

Does anyone this this is a "big deal"? I mean, what's the draw? Ohhh, Windows Seven! They certainly couldn't compete with the Costco's, Best Buy's, etc. in hardware prices. I don't get it. But, obviously, I'm a Apple fanboi. Probably not their target demographic ...