MSN Music adds more European download stores
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The software giant&#39;s experiment in the rapidly expanding music download market has now set up shop in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, Austria and Spain, bringing the number of countries with MSN Music services to 17.
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Following Apple's recent launch of the iTunes Music Store for the European Union, Microsoft has announced its MSN Music download service is available in eight new countries. Individual songs range from 99 euro cents to 1.29 euros, slightly more pricey than those from iTunes. Microsoft partnered with CDON.com to bring MSN Music to Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland; Spain, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland stores were launched through an arrangement with OD2. MSN Music is now offered in a total of 17 countries.
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MSN HAS introduced a &quot;preview&quot; version of MSN Music in the US which allows downloading of music using Windows Media Player 10 or a web browser.
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Microsoft has finally launched an online music store in the US, albeit in &#39;preview&#39; form, some 16 months after the debut of iTunes.
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Company hopes that the rival to Apple's iTunes will make draw visitors to MSN website.
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An Apple exec has told Reuters that the company will be expanding its European iTunes Music Store in October. Vice president Eddie Cue told the news service
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Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) launched its MSN music download service in eight new European countries on Thursday. The software colossus made the move a mere week after iTunes, the category killer
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Sony Corp. next week will launch a marketing blitz in Europe for its new Connect music download store, its latest effort to derail the
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SAN JOSE, CaliforniaâOctober 26, 2004âAppleÂ® today launched a European Union version of its revolutionary iTunesÂ® Music Store, giving music fans in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain the same
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Microsoft Corp., the world&#39;s largest software maker, has expanded its flagship MSN Hotmail internet email service to include European and Japanese domain names, it said on Friday.
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Apple&#39;s iTunes store currently has coverage in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
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Software giant Microsoft unveils a music-downloading service - MSN Music - to rival Apple's iTunes and other providers.
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MSN Music Store Launches  MSN has unveiled MSN Music Store, their pay per download WMP driven system which is predicted to give Apple iTunes, Napster, and RealNetworks a run for their money in the realm of legal music download search. MSN Music Service will initially offer music downloads of 500,000 music ...
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Microsoft officially launched the MSN Music Store today, marking the company&#39;s entry into the online music download business. The company announced the service
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Microsoft will launch its online store in the US this week, according to SiliconValley.com. The report says that the MSN store will be &#39;quietly&#39; launched along with the new version of Windows Media Player 10.
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Gearing up to compete with MS' Zune too IFA 06 Samsung is to take the digital music fight to Apple by launching its own song download service in the UK, France and Germany, the South Korean giant revealed today. Details of the service remain scarce, but we can say it will be operated by digital music distributor MusicNet, which also powers Virgin Digital, HMV, Yahoo!, iMesh and others.â¦
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The software giant quietly raised the curtain for its MSN Music Web site, which offers song downloads for 99 cents. The store also has a home in Windows Media Player 10, which is slated to launch on Thursday.