Microsoft launched its first retail store in Scottsdale, Ariz., Thursday to coincide with the launch of Windows 7, and we now have the photos, and details from the grand opening event.
Microsoft’s first store is in function now following the release of Windows 7, Microsoft is going to leave no stone unturned in promoting it newly released Windows from its own stores. Inside the new location, the walls are lined with continuous screens that rotate through images. The store also includes a multi-touch Microsoft Surface table. In the back of the store is the “Guru Bar,” Microsoft’s answer to the Genius Bars at Apple stores. The station where Windows Gurus are located has the word “Answers” on its left and right side.
At least one former Mac Specialist is said to work at the Arizona location. Keller, a former Apple Retail employee, said he knows others who were approached by Microsoft and offered similar wages to what Apple pays ‘we posted on it earlier if you remember’.
