Microsoft takes retail market fight into Asia

Microsoft, the world's largest software company, plans to expand its network of branded retail stores into Hong Kong - which would be its first in Asia - and the mainland.

That initiative would put Microsoft in head-to-head competition against Apple, which has established some of its most lucrative branded retail shops at 11 locations in the two markets.

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