Microsoft Unveils 'Urge' Music Service

Posted by Zonk on Thursday January 5, 2006 @03:13AM from the fewer-clones-will-die-in-this-one-i-think dept.

CHaN_316 writes "CNNMoney has an article entitled, 'Gates unveils his Urge.' From the piece: 'Bill Gates aims to take over your living room and late Wednesday he unveiled a new music service and new software to do it. Using an appearance with Justin Timberlake, the Microsoft chairman debuted a new music service, Urge, to directly compete with the iTunes music store and interface. Urge launches with over 2 million tracks for purchase or as part of an all-you-can eat subscription, an option the iTunes music store doesn't have. The offering will include exclusive material from MTV.' Begin the living room wars we must." Confirmation of an earlier story on this topic.

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Re:Look at the sales numbers... by cmoney · 2006-01-05 04:36 · Score: 5, Informative

huh? you need to clarify your iPod sales numbers because even this press release (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/feb/23ipodmi ni.html) says 10 million iPods sold and that was when the second gen iPod mini was released close to a year ago. in fact, google the sales results for this quarter and analysts are expecting 11 million ipods the holiday quarter alone.