Microsoft debuts Microsoft Store in apparent attempt to sell stuff
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Hard to believe that a company the size and stature of Microsoft hasn’t had an on the web store to call its home — not even a quirky collection of “Bill Gates is my homeboy” CafePress t-shirts and mousepads. The newly launched Microsoft Store solves that, however, with its many store-like properties. Therein you can find all sorts of Microsoft products, like software, peripherals, games and professionally-printed “Bill Gates is my homeboy” t-shirts.* What’s particularly notable is that Microsoft is jumping into electronic software distribution here, meaning in addition to traditional physical buys you can purchase a bit of software and download it right there on the spot. Downloaded software can be re-downloaded for as long as Microsoft provides mainstream support — about 5 years in most cases. We’d prefer forever and always, but we suppose that will have to do. The store is live now, and we’d advocate you head on over before we make some drastically ill-advised enterprise software impulse buys.
*This isn’t true.
[Via ZDnet]
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