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Microsoft Unhappy With HP's iTunes Decision
rbrandis writes "The general manager of Microsoft's Windows digital media division David Fester has suggested that iTunes' emerging dominance would be bad for consumers, because it would limit them to the iPod, as opposed to limiting them to Microsoft based products. In a moment of what must have been an attempt at ironic humor he said, 'Windows is about choice - you can mix and match software and music player stuff. We believe you should have the same choice when it comes to music services.'"
ROFL! Talk about naked FUD. Choice, choice, choice. Yeah, that's the Microsoft Way, isn't it? NOT. What hypocrisy!
I am ever so grateful that once again Microsoft is looking after my best interests. We can all sleep well.
It has always been questionable as to whether they would get DRM to work in the first place. Now along comes HP, trying to make what are essentially incompatible DRM systems work together, and still protect content. The closest analogy I can think of is trying to have make a marriage work with two spouses at the same time.
Anybody who has installed any kind of media player on Windows knows what I'm talking about... it's almost impossible to assign specific file types to Window's Media Player, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Winamp, etc., without all of these applications trying to steal the right to handle these file types out from one another. Now the same thing is going to happen, but with DRM in the mix?
It's going to be a zoo. Nobody is going to stand still for this, especially when people start losing the right to access content they've already payed for.
And just wait till this shit starts happening to everybody's porn collection. People will be running amok in the streets.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Wait.. what? I would fill up the gas in my car if my sister wasn't a lesbian.
"We believe you should have the same choice when it comes to music services."
Does anyone else cringe when you see/hear the words "choice" and "Microsoft" in the same sentence?
Sigs are for losers
You must be new... that's what it has ALWAYS meant.
"HP Windows boxen" (when did that become plural for boxes?)
About the same time "moosen" became the plural of moose (as in "I see a flock of moosen").
(props to Brian Regan)
Also,
Slavery is Freedom
and
War is Peace
If I remember my Orwell right.
You can have any color as long as it is black!
- Henry Ford
The best planning can be done after the project completes.
Microsoft said they were about choice! Now the linux zealots can all flame them on slashdot and go to sleep happy. The apple users can chime in their love for ipods and itunes. The windows fanboys can chime in how wma is surperior and that it will take over and crush apple and linux. Once the rubble has settled the 1862 ogg users can tout a new media format world order and reign for the next 1000 years. Good times a commin'!
If microsoft did this once a month, IT productivity would go up 10%.
Cripes, when did this happen? I'm out of it for a little bit, and Microsoft becomes a spamming outfit! Naked FUD, Enlarge your CHOICE, end-user license SECRETS, listen to music FROM YOUR HOME...
"Does anyone else cringe when you see/hear the words "choice" and "Microsoft" in the same sentence? "
:)
I might if I were low on karma.
"Derp de derp."
Does this mean that Microsoft is now beleaguered?
Don't iPods already work with Windows?
Well, they did, but Microsoft will have a critical patch out soon to fix that problem.
Little elves in the sky. Very tiny ones. They sprinke the funnyness all over, and it land on every post, but only sticks to the funny ones. Same with the Insightful Angels, Interesting Sprites, Informative Fairies, Troll (what else) Trolls, Flamebait Devils and Redundant Redundant Redundant Orcs.
"Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you."
MS: Where would you be without me? (gollum gollum). I saved us. It was me. We monopolized because of me!
HP: Not anymore.
MS: What did you say?
HP: Apple looks after us now. We don't need you.
MS: What?
HP: Leave now and never come back.
MS: No!
HP: Leave now and never come back!
MS: Arrrgh!
HP: LEAVE NOW AND NEVER COME BACK!
[HP is panting and looking around and realises MS is gone.]
HP: We told him to go away! And away he goes Preciousss. Gone, gone, gone, HP is free!
If you buy Mac OS X and don't want iTunes, simple. Drag the iTunes app to the trash and it is gone. No registry mess, just a clean simple removal. Try that with Internet Explorer. I'm betting you can't.
;-)
I just trashed Internet Explorer, now I'm sending this message from the public library while I reinstall Windoze. Doh!
Microsoft keeps using that word... I do not think it means what they think it means.
-- james
They would, but they are unable since removing their Mail.app.
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"