Microsoft effort to replicate Apple fails; all Microsoft retail stores to shut down

Well, it took long enough, but even Microsoft’s patience for perpetuating a grand ruse has its limits. The company will shutter all of its 80 or so of its remaining retail stores – the exact number seems to be unknown, since nobody cares; at one point they had at least 100 empty spaces scattered about – as the company has yet again failed to replicate Apple’s success.
Microsoft’s first Retail Store opened in in Scottsdale Fashion Square in Arizona in 2009
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