Microsoft’s first Canadian retail store to open at Yorkdale

Microsoft Store

Microsoft will open its new store at Yorkdale on Friday. The new Microsoft store opening at Yorkdale Mall on Friday – the first international location outside the U.S. – is in some ways, a chip off the old Apple retailing block.

It has wood floors and lots of gleaming countertops and glass accents and products tethered to tables and pillars, including the new Microsoft Surface tablet, the Kinect and Xbox 360.
In a cramped staffroom behind the store, young experts-in-training are hunched over electronic devices, cramming for opening day on Friday, when they will don neon-coloured t-shirts that will identify them to customers as experts in all things Microsoft.
As the geniuses at the Apple bar do for Apple products, they will make Microsoft hardware and software look ridiculously easy and vitally important to a happy life.

WHO IS GOING TO GO SHOPPING FOR MICROSOFT PRODUCTS?