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Microsoft Unveils 'Urge' Music Service
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.
I have the urge to point out that Urge is a stupid name.
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Geez...just the mention of him appearing with Justin Timberlake just killed any idea of quality and usefulness I might have had thought of concerning this service...
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Or dirge. Just the sort of hip, radical, urban and bitchin' cool attitude that is so well understood by old white male executives in grey suits.
Only one of these choices actually makes music. Coincidentally only one of these companies has a successful online music store.
Bullshit. Napster might switch but MSFT will not use any format that they themselves didn't create/enhance/ruin.
Just look at the ODF spectical. Independant researchers and archivists have been chiming in saying MSFT format is horrible. MSFT could easily support ODF. MSFT could easily support W3C standards. MSFT could of been smart and killed ActiveX years ago preventing the majoity of the viruses currently in existance.
It's MSFT's way or the highway. Now Napster and Real have all but begged for apple to open up Fairplay. And Apple should of done that by now. But in the end Apple is just as bad as MSFT when it comes to those ideas.
of course I still own a powerbook and have no working windows machines in my presence any more.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Christian rock is like some youth minister's idea of what rock and roll is: you don't even have Link Wray or the Rolling Stones, no it's derivative boy band music and hair metal. And Urge is like some out of touch dorky software mogul's idea of hip -- aesthetically perfectly paired with Stryper, Petra and Creed.
``Have you heard about this totally praiseworthy and righteous new music service, Urge? Rock on! Praise the Lord, man!''
Oh, no, history shows they're perfectly happy to license (or partner on) anything from anyone, provided the terms of the agreement somehow give MS the right to rip the other guy's balls off at a later date.
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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.