Can MSN music unseat iTunes?
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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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Apple yesterday launched its iTunes Plus service which makes selected tracks compatible with virtually any MP3 player.   Songs from record label EMI's digital catalogue can now be downloaded without digital rights management (DRM) anti-piracy technology.
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Apple is recommending that iTunes users stick with Windows XP for now. The iPod-maker is warning that its music store software might not be compatible with Vista, Microsoft's latest operating system.
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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 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 on Wednesday released a beta version of its highly anticipated online music download service, in hopes of unseating Apple Computer&#39;s dominance in the hot market.
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By Edward C. Baig  Want to hear music from your iTunes library on your cellphone? No, not that cellphone.
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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's efforts to loosen up access to closely held music owned by record labels has an unintended consequence: It punishes artists who want to share. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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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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An anonymous reader writes &quot;Paul Thorrott reviews Windows Media Player 10 and notes that unlike Apple&#39;s iTunes Music Store, which offers music that is only compatible with Apple&#39;s iPod portable player, WMP 10 will work with songs from virtually any other
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Microsoft&#39;s online music store, known as MSN Music store, is being hailed as the most capable competitor to the iTunes Music Store of California&#39;s Apple.
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Taxing the hardware? Column Earlier this month, Universal Music Group (UMG) - the world's largest record company with acts like U2 and Jay-Z - decided not to renew its contract with Apple's iTunes music store. Universal will continue to supply iTunes its vast catalogue but may cancel that supply at any time. In the company's own words, "Universal Music Group will now market its music to iTunes in an 'at will' capacity, as it does with its other retail partners."â¦
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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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One of the first things Microsoft did when launching the Zune was get rid of the two-year-old MSN Music download service. That doesn't bode well for Yahoo Music.
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The latest version of Hymn can already remove DRM protection from songs purchased from the iTunes 7 store to enable playback on non-iPod players.  In Listening Post.
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Microsoft is looking to take a bite out of Apple&#39;s lion&#39;s share of the digital-music marketplace with three new products that promise to do whatever Apple&#39;s iTunes and iPod can do, and more.