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Microsoft and MTV to Launch Music Service

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the continued-reactionary-behavior dept.

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.'"

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  1. Music? by KingSkippus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Music?

    I know Microsoft has the music player in Windows, but what does MTV have to do with music?

  2. Urge? by penguinboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds more like a service for "adult material", not music.

  3. This is SO AWESOME!!! by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  4. No worries... by KingSkippus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm just glad that someone here realized what the hell I was talking about in spite of the Redundant mod. Apparently, too many folks here haven't actually watched MTV since the 1980's. Oh well, can't say I blame 'em.

    They'll figure it out soon enough, though. I wonder how long it will be before this new online music service only has content about pimping cars, playing jokes on people, weird people forced to share a house, and so on instead of, well, you know... music.