Microsoft's store foray: Compensating for the tech retail implos...

Courtesy ZDNET - Between the Lines  Mon, 07/20/2009 - 3:25am

Microsoft’s move into retail is often portrayed as a defensive move to thwart Apple. But Dana Blankenhorn notes that it Microsoft’s move is really about the demise of the tech retail channel.

At SmartPlanet, Blankenhorn writes: Drive down a suburban highway, or along the margins of any mall, and you find PC expertise confined to sad repair [...]


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