Still, I not only loved the stores, I volunteered in several of them.
Sad to see them go.
I have a Surface and its one of the best hardware buys I’ve ever made. It combines what I want in a laptop and a notepad. I stuck with MS primarily because the engineering & scientific software I used professionally was almost exclusively on MS. That’s not the case now but I’m basically retired and see no reason to change. Also I’ve had very little trouble with Windows once it got past 98 & NT.