Take a tour of Microsoft's first store in Canada

On Friday, Canada's first Microsoft store will open to the public with a big two-day ceremony featuring a concert by Train and the chance to play video games with Wayne Gretzky, in Toronto's Yorkdale mall.

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  Employees celebrate and give high-fives as they enter the first Microsoft store in Canada, set to open in Toronto?s Yorkdale mall on Friday.
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  Microsoft has 30 stores in the United States, but the Yorkdale location is the first of its kind in Canada.
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  The store opens to the public on Friday with a big two-day ceremony featuring a concert by Train and the chance to play video games with Wayne Gretzky.
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  Employees wear colourful t-shirts with logos for XBox, the new Windows phone, and the new Surface tablet.
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  More than 70 employees have been hired at the store.
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  The Yorkdale location is 6,800 square feet.
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  Every screen in the store, from laptops to the massive screens on the walls, is touch-sensitive.
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  A display corner with Christmas balls momentarily displayed on the large screens that are on almost every wall of the store.
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  The store features many accessories for the new Surface tablet as well as other Microsoft products.
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  A a corner of the store is dedicated to gaming, and XBox specifically.
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  Perhaps on a video game is the only place Toronto fans will see the Toronto Maple Leafs play this season.
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  Store manager, Alison Evans, and Eastern U.S. market manager, Peter Harrington.
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  The new Microsoft Surface has plenty of central display space.
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  A demo of the new Windows 8.
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  Store manager, Alison Evans, prepares for the grand opening.
  (Peter Power /The Globe and Mail)

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