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Microsoft has launched an online store simply called The Microsoft Store.

Microsoft Store offers the company’s entire consumer catalog, including desktop software, the Xbox console and its related game titles, the Microsoft Zune, and all of the company’s hardware, including mice, keyboards, web cameras, and joysticks.

“Microsoft Store gives customers a trusted environment to discover, learn, try, download and buy from the largest selection of Microsoft software, devices and hardware,” said Larry Engel, general manager, Microsoft Store & Marketplaces. “For the first time, customers will have one place to find and purchase everything from Microsoft, rather than seeing just a list of products.”

According to Engel, one of the most compelling features of the new store is that it will offer many products, including Windows and Office, as a digital download. “We think customers will enjoy the immediate satisfaction of purchasing, downloading and installing these products within minutes,” he says.

Although the Microsoft Store will price all its products at the manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP), customers still see benefits, says Engel.

“Microsoft Store is really about making that direct connection with the customers, and then making it a great experience from start to finish,” he says. “The entire focus of our design is to make it easy for customers to navigate and find the products they want, and understand which products will work best for them.”

Customers will find tabs to broad product categories, and simple links for version comparisons, pricing and ordering. Straightforward “connect the dots” diagrams allow for fast and clear comparisons between software versions, so customers can get the right package for the features they need.

In addition to downloads, Microsoft Store will also offer full packaged products. In general, PC software will be available either as a packaged product or for immediate download, while games and hardware will be shipped.

Microsoft Store has already launched in Germany, UK and Korea. Over the next year, the store will also launch in several countries worldwide, in a number of languages. New stores are in the works for Japan, France, Spain and the Netherlands.

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Milestone man Sachin Tendulkar on Friday asserted that he would play as long as he enjoys his game and nobody should dare tell him when to stop.

Basking in his new-found glory as the highest Test run getter after breaking Brian Lara’s record of 11,953 runs, the batting great said he does not have anything to prove to anyone and nobody should tell him when to call it quits.

“I don’t need to prove anything to anyone. I have been around for 19 years and all those 19 years I did not play to prove anything to anyone, not in my first year not in the 10th, 15th or 19th year,” a combative Tendulkar told a press conference after the opening day’s play against Australia.

“What I need to do is to contribute to whatever my team’s requirements are. I’m not here to answer what x,y, and z is writing about me or saying about me. People will say lot of things, not necessarily they are always correct. I don’t take thir opinions seriously,” he said.

“What happens in the dressing room is more imporant. The planning of the captain, coach, manager and other players are much more important. I just focus on that,” he said.

Tendulkar made it clear that though the clamour is growing for the retirement of the senior players in the side, he was in no mood to hang up his boots.

“I’m going to continue obviously, I’m feeling good. As I said, so many things are being said and written and not necessarily those are right. Those are only opinions”, he said.

“What I feel within is more important. People tend to give opinion about what’s going in my mind, so I don’t know how they can figure out what’s going in my mind, which is something even I can’t figure out at times,” Tendulkar quipped. “As long as I enjoy I’ll play. I don’t need x, y, z to tell me when I should stop or when I should continue. When I started, no one told me you should continue, so nobody needs to tell me now either,” he said.

Taking a dig at his critics, he said “people sometimes throw stones and you converted them into milestones.” The champion batsman, however, said becoming Test cricket’s highest run-getter was the biggest achievement of his career.

“It is definitely the biggest achievement in 19 years of my career. It can’t happen overnight. The journey has been fantastic with ups and downs. It was a process of success,” he said.

Tendulkar admitted not winning a World Cup rankles him but refused to commit to hang around for the 2011 World Cup.

“Of course this is something we came very close to win in 2003 but it was so near yet so far. For me, I now just want to go out and enjoy, not thinking about targets and goals. When it comes in the vicinity, I would focus my energy on that,” he said.

In current times of credit crunch, things look all tough money-wise. However, this is no deterrent for launch of new things from biggies like Microsoft. Google Adsense rule internet ad market and there are so many players trying to cover-up and match Google.

Microsoft is all set to launch its Ad network in India ‘Drive PM’ (Drive Performance Media). Microsoft acquired Drive PM last year for 6 billion dollars and now its time to milk it (or use it). As pointed by Rajiv, Drive PM was launched in Canada last year.
There is no official word from Microsoft for Jan 2009 India launch. They have already hired people for India launch, clearly indicating India launch is around the corner. Drive PM website has lot more, if you are interesting in trying new Ad network as a publisher or advertiser. Another one joins the race, hope it has enough fuel to survive!