This article is primarily about MSN's plans for a subscription-based music service, a la the new Napster:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39196413,00.htm Another case of Microsoft competing with their own partners. But buried in the article is one interesting tidbit--MSN may be negotiating with copyright holders to all them to generate a Microsoft-compatible copy of any iTunes song you've already purchased. So in other words, it would make switching off iPod easy by letting Microsoft give you a copy of all your iTunes-purchased songs to play on any of the various Microsoft-compatible players. May not come to pass due to all the agreements it would require. But it is interesting that they're considering this direct a frontal attack on iTunes Music Store. --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
