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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.
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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DAMM YOU ?> !!!!
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I stole this Sig
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 ?
...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.
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.
Well that rules out Microsoft... ;)
"Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
"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."