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Microsoft Spreads the Magic of Disney Using RFID Bands
How do you impress the world’s most experienced technology companies with your event technology? For Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, it was all in the wrist. RFID wristbands served as the centerpiece of an event-wide strategy that was designed to facilitate networking, enhance the on-site experience and fuel collaboration among Microsoft’s U.S. partner eco-system. The bands...
Microsoft Entices Gamers with a Hands-on Mall Program
To increase awareness of the Xbox 360 and its capabilities, and push trials and sales of games and systems, Microsoft hit 12 markets in two phases during the holiday season last year with a series of hands-on consumer experiences. Guests who passed near the footprint were encouraged to have “More Fun Today” by getting their...
Microsoft Touts Windows XP Pro with Human Kiosks
Microsoft reached out to GMR for a retail program heralding Windows XP Professional and the hardware that wears the software oh so well. The effort hit 42 markets and 211 retail stories (Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry’s, Nebraska Furniture Mart and J&R’s) nationwide last fall. Three “human kiosks”—field staffers with laptops and demo trays strapped to...
Xbox Reaches Gamers in a Shipping Container Vehicle
Microsoft set off across Canada for the month of November to win over gamers, hype the Xbox One console and prove its dominance over the PlayStation 4. The tour traveled to Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver in a converted shipping container-turned Xbox One Source vehicle that when dormant looked just like the console, but transformed into...