Microsoft to open 75 new stores

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Already have an account? Login now. Right now, there are 11 Microsoft stores open, all in the United States. Of course, Microsoft is chasing Apple, which has more than stores, including 86 abroad.

Microsoft actually was once ahead of Apple on the retail front, opening its first retail store in at the Metreon shopping center in San Francisco. But Microsoft abandoned the effort, shutting the store a little more than two years later. After witnessing Apple's retail success, Microsoft revived the store strategy in Turner, the resident flame-thrower at Microsoft, spent much of his speech ridiculing rivals in a bid to motivate Microsoft's partners.

He started in early on Salesforce. Turner went after Google, too, saying with more than a bit of hyperbole that the press wrote off Office as a business when the search giant began offering Google Apps, its online productivity suite.

With the launch of Office two weeks ago, Microsoft's customers now have Web functionality with products previously tied to desktops and servers. Turner also highlighted Microsoft's priorities for its coming fiscal year, which began on July 1, Microsoft's message is that it's an easier transition to Windows 8, IE 10 and Office 15 from the more recent versions of its core products than it is from older, end-of-life ones.

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