Microsoft Launches MSN Music
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In the right corner, weighing in with 100 million downloaded iTunes songs: heavyweight champion Steve Jobs. In the left corner, weighing in with billions and billions of dollars and near universal
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Microsoft Corp. rolls out a preview version of its online music store today, on a wave of heavy-metal thunder.
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'Ignition' will launch a blitz of musical artists across MSN, Xbox Live, and Zune.
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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.
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Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a new set of Web-based services allowing users of its MSN service to publish and track each other&#39;s blogs.
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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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MSN, Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT.O Web   portal, said on Tuesday it will make a big push to stream live   concerts to its users after signing an exclusive global   partnership with Control Room, the company behind the web   broadcast of last year's Live 8 event.
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Microsoft Corp., hoping to take a bite out of Apple Computer Inc.'s highly popular online music service, is gearing up to launch its own Web site for selling songs over the Internet.
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It&#39;s a big day for Microsoft as the company launches its XP Reloaded marketing campaign with the releases of Windows Media Player (WMP) 10, Portable Media Centers (PMCs), and the MSN Music preview.
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Microsoft's MSN business unit has told MSN Premium customers to expect the launch of MSN Video 2 sometime today. MSN Video is a free service for subscribers offering news, sport and entertainment programming that is entirely subsidized by advertising revenues. However, despite rumors to the contrary, MSN Music will not launch today.
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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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Company hopes that the rival to Apple's iTunes will make draw visitors to MSN website.
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Microsoft&#39;s has launched its MSN music download service in eight more European countries as the software giant bids to takes on Apple&#39;s market leading iTunes.
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The noise that surrounded Microsoft&#39;s (MSFT:Nasdaq - news - research) launch of MSN Music last week underscores the opportunities many investors see in the online music market now dominated by Apple Computer (AAPL:Nasdaq - news - research).
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Microsoft's MSN Music store shouldn't surprise anybody. The company with its own operating system, online service, digital-music format and media software was always the likeliest suspect to launch an online music store.
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Never content with the simple things in life, Microsoft is apparently on a mobile media crusade with the deceptively unassuming announcement of the companies MSN Music service.
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MSN, Microsoft Corp.'s Web portal,   said on Tuesday it will make a big push to stream live concerts   to its users after signing an exclusive global partnership with   Control Room, the company behind the web broadcast of last   year's Live 8 event.