“Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it is planning to open its first two retail stores in Arizona and California this fall,” Jessica Mintz reports for The Associated Press.
“The software maker said Tuesday it signed leases at shopping centers in Mission Viejo, Calif. and Scottsdale, Ariz. The Shops at Mission Viejo is already home to an Apple store. The other location, Scottsdale Fashion Square, does not have a competing Apple Inc. shop,” Mintz reports.
“Microsoft maker picked those areas because they’re “hot markets,” with the right demographics, said Kim Stocks, a corporate communications director at the company,” Mintz reports. “She said the stores will sell laptops in addition to Microsoft and third-party software, Zunes, and Xbox 360 games and consoles.”
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