Apple stores, for example, not have the giant video walls that are found in each microsoft office 2010 professional store, nor obviously the Xbox to experience on.Like Apple, the stores are a mix of hardware, software and accessories with lots of devices to try and an area to ask technical questions.

And, since the stores are hardly ever super-crowded, it's actually easier to acquire some 1:1 time.While stressing the stores exist to market products, Soligon said they will also be there to showcase windows server 2008 r2 and all sorts of its endeavors.

"We think of ourselves as the physical symbol of brand," she said.That said, Microsoft does want its retail efforts to repay a goal that might be easier to reach if more people came through the doors.

Soligon said the company is bringing new technology into stores from unreleased Video games to virtual reality headsets like HTC's Vive and Microsoft's own HoloLens.The flagship store in Ny is revealing cheap microsoft office 2016 HoloLens, while HTC's Vive headset (which needs a PC) is on display at around 30 stores.

"There's a line all the time," said Soligon.