Microsoft to Permanently Close All Retail Stores

Late last week, Microsoft announced "a new approach to retail." This approach, effect immediately, will see the closure of all but four of Microsoft's retail outposts across the globe.Only a quartet of stores will remain open in New York, London, Sydney and Redmond, but they will become "Microsoft Experience Centers" and offer no product for sale. The shift to digital service over brick and mortar was something that Microsoft was looking to implement by 2021, The Verge reports, but coronavirus g...