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Microsoft and MTV to Launch Music Service
An anonymous reader writes "According to ZDNet Microsoft and MTV have joined forces to form Urge, a new online music service. From the article: 'The company said Urge would include a subscription component, as well as allowing individual song sales. A spokesman declined to discuss pricing, saying full details would be announced next month. The company gave no specifics on launch date beyond saying it would be sometime in 2006.'"
Music?
I know Microsoft has the music player in Windows, but what does MTV have to do with music?
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Sounds more like a service for "adult material", not music.
poisoning the minds of every youth in the U.S.A. and Canada
Don't stop there. Obviously you've never watched MTV en Español.
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Although offering few details, the company said it has worked closely with Microsoft to build a service called Urge that will let listeners experiment with new music, as well as offer "original, hand-crafted content" from MTV and its other cable channels.
Mmmm. Hand-crafted. I can see it now.
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Microsoft and MTV are basically already synonymous as it is... Bill Gates, P Diddy, Steve Ballmer, and Paris Hilton hit the clubs every night. Get with the times, yo. Microsoft sofware is just cool... that's why I bought it... you think I buy it for security?
Sounds more like ughh.
They should have named the service 3E - for the third evil !
Why does yahoo do this
Dude, this is SO AWESOME. Finally, someone is combining the best things on Earth... Microsoft's quality software and MTV's quality music!!!
Now, if only they could toss Wal*mart and McDonald's into the mix!
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Great, a Music Video station that doesn't show music videos anymore, teaming up with a software company that no longer produces good software. Did Dante dream this up? What rung of hell am I in now?!?!?
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Lets combine the two and what do u get??
very expensive Emo Mp3s that crash your computer and advertise every chance they get
sounds pretty convincing.......
The company gave no specifics on launch date beyond saying it would be sometime in 2006.
For those not paying close attention, please note that this is a Microsoft launch date. You'll be lucky if you can still hear music by the time they actually get this launched.
Lewis Black put it best:
"MTV is to music what KFC is to chicken."