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Microsoft Music Store?

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From the LA Times:
Microsoft has recently shown its version of a downloadable music store to executives at several record companies. Sources said Microsoft plans to give consumers more music-related information to guide their purchases than the iTunes Music Store does, and that its store might be accessible via Xbox game consoles as well as computers. Microsoft officials declined to comment.
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Here's another story from Reuters

Apple Computer Inc.'s popular online music service has media and technology companies such as Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo!. looking into their own competing versions, according to a published report Tuesday, citing unnamed sources and company officials.
 
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same old story. Apple innovates or revolutionizes something, and then the rest of them make their crap versions, but somehow manage to get more sales
 
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MacAddikt wrote:
same old story. Apple innovates or revolutionizes something, and then the rest of them make their crap versions, but somehow manage to get more sa
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I agree, if you can not beat them, copy them and then market the heck out of it.
 

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