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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All they need now... by AccUser · 2006-01-05 03:17 · Score: 0, Troll

All they need now is a stable platform to run it on. Having switched from Microsoft Windows XP to the Apple Mac platform shortly after the release of OS X 10.4 (Tiger), I know that they have a long way to go to get anything close to the experience that Apple offers.

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Urge and Justin Timberlake? by tjstork · 2006-01-05 03:19 · Score: 0, Troll

Urge and Justin Timberlake?

Sounds to me like Microsoft's new iTunes clone might as well be renamed "Gay"!

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