{"id":4725,"date":"2008-11-14T22:33:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T17:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2022-12-28T18:27:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T12:57:04","slug":"buy-and-download-microsoft-software-from-microsoft-us-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/buy-and-download-microsoft-software-from-microsoft-us-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy and Download Microsoft Software from Microsoft US Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has officially launched the <a href=\"http:\/\/store.microsoft.com\/home.aspx \" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Store<\/a> for the U.S. enabling shoppers to buy their favorite Microsoft software and products online this holiday season. Microsoft had previously launched such Stores internationally in the UK, Germany and Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Senior Program Manager Trevin Chow says the main advantage is that you can <strong>buy and download <\/strong>Microsoft products and this policy is referred to as <strong> Electronic Software Distribution (ESD).<\/strong> So once your payment is confirmed, you can immediately download the product to your computer and install it right away. This means <strong>zero shipping costs<\/strong> you might have paid otherwise, and you can use the software right now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4726\" title=\"Download Software\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-software.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"139\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>So what if you need to re-install the product later?<\/em> Microsoft Store lets you re-download the product until mainstream support for the product ends, which is usually 5 years after the product is released.<\/p>\n<p>There is a huge Microsoft software range listed there and you have the option to download or order a CD. There are many hardware products also ranging from the beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/store.microsoft.com\/microsoft\/Arc-Mouse-Red\/product\/3C0A8E64\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Arc Mouse<\/a> to the more rugged <a href=\"http:\/\/store.microsoft.com\/microsoft\/Xbox-360-Elite-Holiday-Bundle\/product\/3F43FC7C\" rel=\"noopener\">Xbox 360 Elite<\/a>, which have to be shipped of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has officially launched the Microsoft Store for the U.S. enabling shoppers to buy their favorite Microsoft software and products&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}