If past is prelude, they'll try again, within about a decade. They first tried a retail store ~1999-2001, before even Apple, with at least one outlet being in

If past is prelude, they'll try again, within about a decade. They first tried a retail store ~1999-2001, before even Apple, with at least one outlet being in San Francisco's downtown 'Metreon': https://www.technologizer.com/2009/10/20/1999-microsoft-store-vs-2009-microsoft-store/ https://www.technologizer.com/2009/10/20/1999-microsoft-stor... (By my recollection, it was somewhere within the 2nd-floor footprint of the Target that's there now... not far from the bowling alley/arcade.)