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Microsoft Opens MSN Music Store
pbranes writes "Microsoft has opened their online music store today with 1 million songs and it will be officially opened tomorrow when Windows Media Player 10 is released. Music costs $0.99 and $9.90 for albums ($0.09 less than iTunes). Also, music is at a higher quality - 160kbps VBR. You can browse the site with Mozilla, however, ActiveX is required for full functionality so IE is required to use the store. Also, Microsoft takes a hit at Apple for not licensing iPod functionality to third parties (kind of ironic when ActiveX is required to use the site).... If you are an iPod owner already and unhappy about this policy, you are welcome to send feedback to Apple requesting that they change their interoperability policy."
Will the music from MS become integrated with my OS once downloaded it can never be separated?
Makes Columbia House look good. On the other hand, what the public wants, the public gets...
*whup* "Get along, little electrons. Heeyah!"
Do you expect anyone using Mozilla to want to buy from the MSN music store anyways? I think most Moz users would rather die than have a drm-laden WMA file on their comp...
I don't look at having to burn a CD to bring it into my IPOD a problem. I'm going to want to back up ANYTHING I download from Microsoft anyway, especially if there's any concern that virii might be involved at some time in the future.. I can eliminate any possiblity of a virus arriving on my IPOD by pushing it to CD first. Best to keep MS's Banannas away from my Apples.
"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." (Lisa Hoffman)
there are activex plugins for Mozilla folks..
Gee, why don't I just go and install Banzai Buddy (or some such crap) and save myself the trouble?
-nova20
Seems that MS can't even design a retail website without plagerizing Apple's UI.
Well didn't Apple plagiarise Windows with their OS operating system?
Funny how WinME need not apply as well... :)
depends on the window size
This is Microsoft we're talking about here. Apple's with lemons is more likely.
//Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.
Seems that MS can't even design a retail website without plagerizing Apple's UI.
:-)
If it aint broke, don't fix it. Steve Jobs has been Microsofts unifficial director of research and innovation for years and this has been enormously profitable for MS. Why would they fire him now?
Got that, NINE WHOLE CENTS!!! Wow, if I buy 100 albums I can save $9!!! I'm dropping iTunes, throwing away my iPod, buying a Nomad and signing up!!!
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
"Kerry/Edwards - so much crap, you need two Johns just to hold it all..."
You're making bathroom humor jokes when your candidate is named Bush? You're making this stuff too easy...
If you can legally download an mp3 song then you can play it on your ipod.
Uh, you can play "illegally" downloaded mp3s as well. I did it once just to test it. Yeah, that's the ticket.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Actually, they're Bush and Dick. Not really much thought needed to make any joke about that.
It would be presumptuous to conclude that Americans have no right to know what is being done in their name
Don't be silly, every country outside of the US is a myth. Everyone knows that.
Why don't you post your information on /. (including credit card number) and we'll try and track down the problem. ;)
No ActiveX required.
No iPod or iTunes required, neither. Props to "Hard N' Phirm."
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