
By Jim Hu
Published: Monday 22 March 2004
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For some reason, "Microsoft" isn't the first or last name that pops into my head for artistic products.
Though I'm sure MS will not fail in the music store market, I'm pretty confident that they will not dominate like they're used to doing in so many other ways. Apple and iTunes have done what is so difficult to do: make a brand name synonomous with genre of product offering.
This all assumes of course that MS will not strongarm it's way into the market and use it's Monopoly power. One can't leave that out of the equation.
Fair enough. I think Microsoft are fairly good at ...
Anonymous
For some reason, "Microsoft" isn't the first or la...
Anonymous
does this mean I have to pay for the same song a y...
BaddSectorr
Lets hope that Microsoft have managed to resolve t...
Charles Wood
Charles, the US do indeed promote the World Trade ...
Anonymous
Lame' Microsofty is only good at 1 thing stealing ...
Macfan
Always stealing ideas from Apple.
they 'll never...
Anonymous
I think making a product easy to use is very impor...
Bob Gould
To the folks who want to accuse Microsoft of steal...
Charles Tomaras
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