Anyone been to the London Microsoft Store, Oxford Circus yet ?

<p>I haven't been to the London store. I actually visited the San Francisco store in 2015 when I was on holiday. I think that the idea of a London store had been doing the rounds in the blogsphere for about a year at that point. I bought an HP Stream 7 tablet. Primarily because it cost less than the copy of bundled vouchers and Microsoft Office that came with it!</p><p><br></p><p>I have two Apple stores within 5 miles of my location in the UK. So I was doing a bit of a comparison in my head. I thought if a Microsoft retail experience came to the UK it might be a good location to buy a PC and a Windowsphone.</p><p><br></p><p>Since then Windowsphone has died. I bought an iphone recently. I do have an Xbox but that's not something I would buy in a Microsoft store. The store is 270 miles from where I live so it would be a place to stop by if I was on holiday in London but a day trip would be expensive. </p><p><br></p><p>I am not really sure now why Microsoft has a retail presence. It's got little to offer consumers these days and the Surface range is business and prosumer. My sense is that the London store is really an advertisement for the brand. That's OK as far as it goes. It seems around 5 years out of date. Microsoft is an enterprise cloud company. Retail seems reasonably pointless for that. </p>