Gates: Microsoft Launches MSN Music In Eight New Nations
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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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Software giant Microsoft unveils its MSN Music music download service to rival Apple's iTunes and others.
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Microsoft celebrated its Vista and Office 2007 business launch across the globe today, including a major event in New York.
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In a bid to dethrone Apple Computer as the king of the online music market, Microsoft formally launched its own service Tuesday. Microsoft&#39;s MSN Music service virtually mirrors
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Microsoft Expands MSN Music Store Download Service  Microsoft expanded its MSN Music Store to eight new countries yesterday, crossing the border into major European countries that iTunes staked its claim in during its U2 fueled EU push in October. With this expansion the MSN Music Store is now accessible in 17 ...
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Through a partnership with GarageBand.com, MSN Music has begun offering users free legal downloads from independent musicians. Initially, 150,000 songs will be made available, which comprise the former MP3.com archive. More tracks from GarageBand.com will be added in the coming months, Microsoft says. In addition, a GarageBand.com page on MSN Music will showcase five up-and-coming musicians. Microsoft is the first major online music store to open its doors to unsigned artists.
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Microsoft unveiled a new online music download service that throws the weight of the world's largest software company into a field currently dominated by Apple Computers.
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Microsoft's music download service launches in eight new countries as the software giant bids to takes on Apple's market leading iTunes.
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SOFTWARE giant Microsoft has taken direct aim at Apple Computer with the launch of online download store MSN Music. Apple&#39;s iTunes has been a massive hit in the market place and is designed to complement its iPod digital music player.
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Gearing up for the holidays, Apple is coming up with new versions of its leading musical products. Its iTunes site with its online charging for downloaded music will become available in 10 new countries, including Canada and Belgium.
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Microsoft have made a beta version of their new music store available to the public. The store is entirely browser-based and does not require a separate client like iTunes.
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Microsoft quietly launched its new blogging service, MSN Spaces, earlier this week. The âquietâ launch has already attracted more than 250,000 users to the new service, still in beta.
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Eight more European countries got access to Microsoftâs MSN Music Store today. This comes in wake of Appleâs similar move to provide iTunes access to more European countries.
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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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'Ignition' will launch a blitz of musical artists across MSN, Xbox Live, and Zune.
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The software giant's new pay-per-download service offers an easy-to-use interface and above-average sound quality. But some critics wonder if the MSN Music service will foster a widening rift in digital music security standards. By Xeni Jardin.
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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.