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Microsoft Developing iPod, iTMS Competitor
Software writes "Reuters reports that Microsoft is developing an iPod and iTunes Music Store competitor. Few details are available, but it's known that Robbie Bach (the man behind the Xbox) is heading up the project." From the article: "Most iTunes rivals charge monthly fees to access a catalog of entertainment, but some allow consumers to buy individual songs for about $1 each. Microsoft's service will emphasize the pay-per-download, or a la carte, model, the sources said. A subscription component will also be offered, according to early accounts of the planned service. One source, who has seen a demonstration of the service, said it was an improvement over iTunes."
"heading up teh project".
All a new commer has to do is to talk Apple's customers into give up their iPods and around $2bn of purchased content, after that they can sell on the basis of better devices and new sales/subscription models.
"One source" [cough]Robbie Bach[/cough]", who has seen a demonstration of the service, said it was an improvement over iTunes."
"If I could live to be several hundred
I could take a walk and really wander, really wonder."
"...Robbie Bach (the man behind the Xbox) is heading up hte[sic] project." So that means the controls will be unecessariliy large?
Gee, I wonder if that source was an Apple rep.
This is it.
The ipod killa.
Pop a 40 Steve, because Bill is about to pop a cap in your lickable bar of techno soap.
or
2. yawn, another ipod killer story.
Take your pick
I'm not a geek then, because I've never replied to a tagline before.
Isn't there a name for software that is intended to manage the various tasks that a user is performing on a computer..? I know there's a name for software like that...
Visualize the world of wine
No wireless. Less space than an iPod. Lame.
The Xpod
I can see it now - cheap, overhyped, and bsoding.
It is the owner that crashes the system. If you are enough of an idiot to put 50 background processes in Windows you sho
I can see it now. Microsoft conincides the release of this device with U2's next album. U2 does a commercial for Microsoft dancing and counting to fourteen in a foreign language. But get this... He skips 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 and 13! Genuis! The next day at work, all anyone can talk about is how much of a fucking idiot Bono is, in that new Microsoft [insert trendy name, like Origami. It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound cool] commercial. Hate for Bono drives sales.
Similes are like metaphors
Those who believe the Internet is private,
find their privates are on the Internet.
...today Microsoft announced their plans to open a chain of discount retail stores to compete with companies like WalMart and Target. Tentatively called "WinMart", the new stores will carry a large assortment of grocery, clothing, and electronics items, including all the latest Microsoft software releases. "Businesses have to expand to survive," said a Microsoft spokesperson. "As we already control the operating system and productivity markets, we felt a need to expand into a completely unrelated field. Plus, WalMart seems to be very successful; we'd like to put them out of business as we have done to so many other successful companies in the past."
:)
Microsoft will seek to promote synergy between their software and retail arms. "Using a complex algorithm, our exciting new operating system Vista will be able to learn all about its users tastes and habits, through analysis of their websurfing and other computer activities. We can then send our customers personalized circulars containing exciting and valuable coupons for the things they need to buy most. Plus, if they have a webcam connected to their computer, we will be able to store their likeness in our centralized database, and store greeters will be able to welcome them by name as they enter the store."....
(OK, enough of that.
one of the most arrogant comments I've ever seen out of a Microsoft shill, and we've all seen our share
To be fair, the Microsoft guy/gal is hardly going to say "iTunes is everything you'd ever want from an online music store and more. Ours is going to suck fetid Dingo's kidneys compared to it."
The gift of death metal does not smile on the good looking.
> The ipod killa.
:-)
Never underestimate an overstimulated Steve Ballamer with a stack of chairs
He's done it before and he can do it again!
Where is this 1 good M$ product of which you speak????
They Live, We Sleep
I'm beginning to forget what exactly Microsoft does anymore.
They are a security company.
You can tell by all the security patches they write...
--Phillip
Can you say BIRTH TAX
Another iPod killer...Nothing to see here folks, move along, move along
That would be Microsoft Bob
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
Customer: I made a CD of the songs I bought using the Microsoft Song Service and it won't play in my car.
MS Support: You have to install Windows in your car to play CDs from the Mircrosoft Song Service.
MS Support: Give us your license number so we can make sure your not a thief.
Customer: WTF?
Enjoy,
It's just the normal noises in here.
Imagine my lap covered in vomit, and imagine me sending you the cleaning bill.
And now, a PSA from David Lynch.
Just so long as the Netherlands and France go after their closed source proprietary "plays for sure for the most part sometimes" DRM and ensures that its available to run on any device....
like iPods.
guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.
I noticed this as well. The sad thing is that they do get modded up when I would like to oblige them so much and mod them down for being inane or for trolling/pandering for shamelessly karma with that line.
But then, I'll probably get modded down for this.
SO you plug your Ipod into windows. It then proceeds to delete all your songs on it.
I sure hope MS does that.
evil is as evil does
What the msPod will look like:a lbum=4&pos=139
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http://gallery.ilounge.com/ipod/displayimage.php?
A video has also been showing the box design:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeXAcwriid0&search
I stole this sig from someone cleverer than me.
Given that the market caps of Dell and Apple have been playing leapfrog the last few weeks - does that mean Dell is now also considered a small company?