MSN Music gears up to play
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Microsoft Corp. long ago proved itself a dominant force in the software industry. But does a company known for PC operating systems and productivity software have the chops to make it in the music biz?
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Microsoft Corp launched its MSN music  download service in eight new European countries on Thursday in  an attempt to fend off a recent expansion push by archrival  Apple Computer's iTunes.
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Microsoft Corp's. newly launched MSN  Music download service has a long way to go to catch up with  iTunes and other online services, competitors said on Thursday.
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SAN JOSE, California - Microsoft Corp. has strategically nurtured its Windows Media Player, making it by far the world&#39;s most dominant program for playing digital music and video on computers.
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The MSN Music site, now in public preview and set for its full-featured debut in mid-October, instantly makes Microsoft a major player in the field, although the store has a decidedly me-too feel about it right now.
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Company hopes that the rival to Apple's iTunes will make draw visitors to MSN website.
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It&#39;s no wonder portable digital music players are one of the hottest gadgets this holiday season, as they carry hundreds or even thousands of songs, they&#39;re compact enough to bring anywhere and getting music on to the player is as easy as two mouse clicks
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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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Portable Media Center devices, MSN Music store, and Windows Media Player 10 launched.
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Microsoft, a company long known for waking up to a market after its competitors only to dominate that same market, has finally woken up to the digital music market.
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Following the success of Apple's iTunes Music Store, Microsoft worked quickly to catch online music's rising star. After many months of development MSN Music, Windows Media Player 10, and Portable Media Centers have been formally launched.
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Microsoft&#39;s MSN division is expected to finally enter the music business this week with a public beta of its new online music service.
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Microsoft plas to release Windows Media Player 10 on Thursday alongside the highly anticipated MSN Music Store. WMP10 will be included in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 which finalized some time after SP2.
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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.
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The Microsoft music player's much-ballyhooed wireless sharing feature only makes sense if you can locate other users. But the gadget's earliest adopters can't seem to find each other. In Listening Post.
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The Washington Post&#39;s Rob Pegoraro says that Microsoft&#39;s new MSN Music store is the most capable iTunes competitor, but that it falls &quot;just short&quot; of Apple&#39;s offering.
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Microsoft Corp. is fighting to expand its online music share and break the hold Apple&#39;s iPod has on the market. Microsoft&#39;s MSN music service began a free song promotion yesterday sponsored by American Express.