Introducing the Microsoft Store

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Brandon LeBlanc
06:40 PM Thursday
Nov 13, 2008
47 Comments

This is something I think is pretty exciting – especially if you’re looking to score some Microsoft product. We are announcing the Microsoft Store – the first online store where you can purchase Microsoft products straight from the source!

We’re selling all of our products at a one-stop-shop: www.MicrosoftStore.com.

The Microsoft Store offers the largest selection of Microsoft software, devices and hardware in one place. You will find many reasons to visit the store:

Immediate software download option with the largest download catalog of Microsoft titles.
Most up-to-date selection of and information on everyone’s favorite Microsoft products including Windows, Office, Xbox, Zune and more!
Simple and secure purchases with full Microsoft support both before and after purchase.

We’re not just launching the Microsoft Store for US customers. In addition to the US Microsoft Store, there are also online stores for customers in the UK, Germany and Korea. Japan, France, Spain and the Netherlands are coming soon. More countries will be coming onboard throughout the year.

I’ll be picking myself up one of the new Microsoft LifeCam Show webcams from the Microsoft Store as I had been looking to pick one up for a while now.

Comments

hitmouse

Posted on: November 16, 2008 at 4:58PM
@Trevin: I was asking about a Korean student buying Korean language products. I presume that he would NOT be able to purchase these from the US store, and would thus be restricted to buying from the Korean store under the conditions described.

These is a common scenario, well known from MS' own research into multi-lingual product use - and not catered for. In Europe, the language/border permutations are even more obvious due to work and study migrations.
Trevin Chow

Posted on: November 17, 2008 at 12:39AM
@HitMouse:

Apologies, I misunderstood a portion of your question (but hopefully did address the others).

We aren't doing any special restrictions on Microsoft Store for the of products sold as long as they are SKUs meant for that market. In your example of the Korean student wanting a Korean version of Microsoft Office, we do sell the Office 2007 multi-language pack which does include Korean language support (in addition to 30+ other languages).

The pure native Korean SKU of Microsoft Office is not for sale like it is in Korea, but this isn't something particular about Microsoft Store -- that SKU isn't available in the US market.

You mentioned that the problem is more common in the EU, so you'll be then pleasantly surprised to find out that for those customers, any EU customer can buy from any of our EU stores and have products delivered to any EU address.

I hope this answers your questions.
Matt22

Posted on: November 17, 2008 at 5:17AM
So, any plans for Ireland then? And what about allowing Laser cards to be used? Pretty much everyone who has a bank account here in Ireland has a laser card, so it would make a lot of sense to allow the use of them in an Irish Microsoft online shop.
krishna

Posted on: November 17, 2008 at 5:29AM
I hear that you realising the windows vista sp2.my queries are

1.vista sp2 should be run in 512mb Ram.This one is very important.

2.Improve the speed and faster perfomance.

3.want userfriendly like windows xp.

4.Improve the application running speed.

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