Can Microsoft change their image? Are these new stores gonna help change that.

All I can say is I want a store like this in UK where I live. :(

Pretty cool. Too bad I wont get to have on of those where I live for a really long time.

just saw the picture but looks nice. much place and not like "we have to put as much shit as possible in an as small as possible store"

Microsoft is trying to be very Apple by going to "Microsoft Accounts" and meshing everything under one umbrella. We'll see if it has the desired effect. To be honest, the whole totally integrated thing kind of annoys me, and is one of the reasons I don't like Apple very much.

Poor MS, now their idea of pushing back against Google and Apple. Is to do what they did years ago.

Haters gonna hate.

In 1 month Windows 8 will smash every thing in this planet sales wise.

lol I don't hate MS

I haven't yet been to the one that opened where I live some months ago, but I'm curious. Even thought about getting a PT there, if only for discounts and insider info. Plus I'm excited about what MS is doing now, even though I don't have plans to spend a bunch of money on their stuff (different priorities in life now).

I'll go check it out after W8, Surface and WP8 launch.

Well selnor, you can only go so far by copying the competition, and if MSFT wants to succeed, then they will have to do something original, which hasn't happened in a while unfortunately for them.