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Thu, 03 Jun 2004

If I were Apple, I wouldn't be losing any sleep over this prospect. Microsoft may have a huge lead in the installed base, and an overwhelming advantage in the corporate world, but they also have all the cool factor of Elmer Fudd.

The new Windows Media Player 10 works with a wide range of portable devices and digital music subscription services. But the real power move comes later this year, when Microsoft launches its own online music store. By Katie Dean.

(link) [Wired News]

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Laura wrote

Oh, I don't know....

I see this as a MUCH more viable offering than iTunes is. iTunes only works on Windows XP machines - for those of us who have one or more computers with an older Windows OS on them, this is the first time to listen to it. And any music bought from iTunes is in a proprietary format, that can only be listened to in iTunes or on an iPod, which means you cannot use a regular mp3 player, nor can you put it into a format that your non-XP Windows system can use.... You CAN burn it to a CD if you have a CD burner. But my CD burner is in my non-XP machine (which is a desktop, and the XP machine is a laptop), so I can't do that...and I don't want it on a CD, anyway. I want it on my stupid desktop! iTunes got $2 from me. I am disgusted with them and they will not get any more money because they are not selling what I want. If Microsoft gets it right (and there's no guarantee of that, at this stage, of course!), they'll have my business, and probably a lot of other people's as well.

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Dave H wrote

Good Points

Laura. Maybe I'm just jaded after 25 years coding for M$ crap, but I made the <a href="http://www.apple.com/switch/stories/davehaxton.html">switch</a> to Mac's two years ago, and haven't looked back. We still have one Windoze box, but when that one dies, audios, Microsoft.... As for other formats for the AAC files, well, there are a myrid of ways to do that - one of which is as simple as hooking your 'line out' on one machine to the 'line in' on another and playing/recoding in any format you want. Technically, you'll lose a little quality, but at 128kbps (for both AAC and MP3) the difference isn't noticable. I do this all the time to get stuff I've bought from iTunes onto my Creative Nomad player (my wife got the iPod - damn!). Thanks for the comment - Be well, Dave H.

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