My first reaction to this was, why would The Soft want to have anything to do with Real? After all, Real has been making most of it's money on advertising for quite a while, and only recently has seen Rhapsody start to increase their revenue (just as an aside, Rhapsody, without a doubt Real's best product, was not developed in house, but was aquired) to the level of profitability.
I think this is a move to try and finally wipe out Yahoo. This gives Microsoft a better email/chat/games/doeverythingfornonpowerusers application than Yahoo offers right now. Yahoo has yet to integrate it's music service with Yahoo! Messenger as far as I can see, and Real has more games than Yahoo.
If it works well, and they can get a good, cheap portable music player to match, they could even threaten Apple too...
Microsoft wants a win in the Joe Average User Market badly, which it can't seem to get against Google, so it's going to go after two older adversaries.
Oh, and I bet they buy Real within two years if this works...
How many books could you buy for the price of a laptop? Or alternatively, take your kids on lots of camping trips or to museums and aquariums with that money. Then, they would have something useful to say, or valuable to remember, instead of hour upon hour of dead time staring at a screen.
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My first reaction to this was, why would The Soft want to have anything to do with Real? After all, Real has been making most of it's money on advertising for quite a while, and only recently has seen Rhapsody start to increase their revenue (just as an aside, Rhapsody, without a doubt Real's best product, was not developed in house, but was aquired) to the level of profitability.
I think this is a move to try and finally wipe out Yahoo. This gives Microsoft a better email/chat/games/doeverythingfornonpowerusers application than Yahoo offers right now. Yahoo has yet to integrate it's music service with Yahoo! Messenger as far as I can see, and Real has more games than Yahoo.
If it works well, and they can get a good, cheap portable music player to match, they could even threaten Apple too...
Microsoft wants a win in the Joe Average User Market badly, which it can't seem to get against Google, so it's going to go after two older adversaries.
Oh, and I bet they buy Real within two years if this works...
If they had just straight copied Apple's Trash, think of the landfill problems we'd be having right now. Reuse! Reduce! RECYCLE!!!!
How many books could you buy for the price of a laptop? Or alternatively, take your kids on lots of camping trips or to museums and aquariums with that money. Then, they would have something useful to say, or valuable to remember, instead of hour upon hour of dead time staring at a screen.