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Microsoft Also Wants Universal Music?
rampant mac writes "An article over at the New York Post is reporting Microsoft has expressed interest in buying Vivendi's Universal Music Group, setting up a possible bidding war between the software maker and rival Apple Computer, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Microsoft's interest is said to be at the level of "poking around, kicking the tires," but it has indeed had conversations with Vivendi executives about buying the music division, sources said."
Here is a story from a few days ago about Apple and Universal.
Usually it takes M$ a few years to copy what Apple has done. So much for my pipe dream of Apple owning a record company and making it respectable...
is there anything microsoft isn't in? they are beginning to reach pokemon status in saturation, all they need to do now is have pasta noodles shaped like the m$ symbol.
rampant mac writes "An article over at the New York Post
Silly mac user, use a more reputable news source like the National Enquirer.
I was worried about this when I saw the /. story a couple days ago but didn't want to say anything because I didn't want to give M$ any ideas myself. But I guess they read the /. story too and got the idea anyways. If only Pudge hadn't posted the story M$ would never have found out and Apple would have gotten away with it.
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I stole this Sig
A kick-ass soundtrack for Doom 3
this means that we'll keep on getting music for free ! I can not see MS create a safe, closed system being hacked in less than a month.
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
If you thought the RIAA was bad, wait until we're up against someone who has half a clue about technology!
Sorry dude Seattle is Boeing country! I believe we are 125K strong were as Microsoft is only 27K strong. Besides we have been here longer and our cash flow never stops, I mean how could it when you defense contractor?
... there will be an announcement about gnu.org, the FSF, a few of the Debian developers, and Linus himself all going in together to buy this music company.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
I'm sure we can expect the following exciting new releases if Microsoft makes this purchase. Not being much of a shining wit, I will leave the hard part up to you:
<pun involving "windows"> - some artist
<clever parody of blue-screen-of-death> - a band
<clumsy attempt at humurous title> - <artist with "gates" as surname>
<mildly amusing dig at open source> - obscure indie band
Oh the fun you could have. If you had time.
In other news, Slashdot is reporting that the 'yuvtob' corporation also wishes to buy Universal Music. Spokesperson for yuvtob said: "at this point the company is only looking at the tires, and from a very long distance".
...start rumors of their interest in buying out insanely large and bloated corporations, then sit back and laugh while the mindless paranoids at Microsoft fall over themselves to beat Apple to the punch, depleting their coffers.
Vivendi Universal should just put itself up on EBay and let all interested parties duke it out in 10 dollar increments :)
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
Falling Out The Windows, Landing In The .NET - The Allchin Brothers (country, classic rock)
My Baby's Givin' Me The Blues - Bluescreen Traveler (blues, contemporary)
Heaven's Openin' Up For Me - Bill 'Pearly' Gates (gospel, contemporary)
Free is Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose (Linux sucks) - Janis Joplin (remixes, classic rock)
Kids these days. Don't even bother doing their own work.
once you get 2/3rds of the way into playing a song, your cd player/mp3 player will need to be restarted.
Dude, they've got Lionel Richie. No wonder Apple and Microsoft are in a bidding war!
GNU/Music? Ya know, free as in song..
I made a PHP/MySQL library that prevents SQL injection & makes coding easier!
"Hey look, someone's trying to make money again."
"Do they use, sell or manufacture computers?"
"Yep."
"Stop them. I don't care what it costs."
Vivendi is not being sold to microsoft. Vivendi was purchased by Iraq days ago.
BTW, Microsoft is burning in their cubicles.
We have won another war.
-yours truely Mohamm3d Al-Sahaf
I could possibly even be tied in to some future service like X-Box live.
Are you going to come over to my house and clean my toilets and vacuum and cook for me while I play XBox Live?
That would be nice.
Withdrawal before climax is very ineffective and those who try this are usually called "parents."
You are going to press PLAY on your CD player and your player will search your home for a computer, then it will search for a MS OS on it. Then it will go to MS web site to download something. You will have to agree. Then, your player will not be good enough for the new CD's from MS. You will have to upgrade your hardware to a newer version with WinXP inside. Of course, this player is going to send MS your entire cd's catalog and before you know it, the cops comes knocking on your door.
Ran
Unless they're giving me free music it's not a better alternative to Kazaa. Why pay for music when I can get it for free from Kazaa? Plus, whatever subscription service comes out will be cracked and we'll get the free songs from that as well. Double plus good. Christina Aguilera songs want to be free. Our founding fathers fought and died for our rights to pirate crappy teen pop music god damnit.
I think this is the very first time that I've read an article about Apple where the word "beleaguered" appeared, and it didn't refer to Apple...
Now they won't have to buy the rights to Lenny Kravitz songs for MSN commercials.
Apple: (Stands of side of bridge, pretends to jump)
Microsoft: AAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
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