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05/23/2003, 10:00pm, EDT

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Tech news: Microsoft is quietly preparing for a counterattack to iTunes by improving its own technology for supporting subscription music services; The California State Senate approved a bill that would make it illegal to send unsolicited e-mail advertising and allows people to sue spammers for $500 per unwanted message, while a new proposal in the House promises to slap the worst bulk e-mailers with prison terms and millions of dollars in fines; Kazaa file-sharing software is on track to become the most-popular free program on the Web with over 230 million downloads; and Amazon.com has announced it will use Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series products to stream music samples to customers from its sites (e.g., CDnow.com, VirginMega.com and Borders.com).

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113775 05/23, 10:24pm, EDT FP!
Apple better get their butts into gear for their invasion into the Windows music market...

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113777 05/23, 10:39pm, EDT Let's do it!
I agree w/ the last guy. If Apple doesn't get the new version of iTunes for Windows out really soon, they're gonna find themselves invaded by others for the same market and they're going to lose it. Good news though: I quizzed some people and 99% of them said they preferred the flat rate model over the subscription model.

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113778 05/23, 10:50pm, EDT Yes, but...
Look at what M$ wants: a subscription based models. They keep saying "consumers will warm up to the idea" or "it's ahead of its time".. Maybe consumers just plain don't *want* to rent their music, but prefer to download it, like iTunes????

I certainly don't want to risk losing all my music if I stop paying a monthly fee. That's such crap, and M$ is so consumed by money they forget about what consumers really want. Anyone who thinks people will "warm up" to the subscription music plans is completely ignorant of consumer wants.

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113779 05/23, 11:16pm, EDT And don't forget about .
... unlimited downloads! The idiot MS guy says Apple's not even looking at that. As if Apple hadn't worked all angles of this before doing what they did. Please. So what if I can can download 100 petateragigabytes of music that will expire as soon as I don't make my monthly Microsoft music mortgage payment? I'd rather download the tunes I really want just one time each and then keep them forever.

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113780 05/23, 11:23pm, EDT Renting
Renting music reminds me of the nightmarish Columbia House. What a negative experience!

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113785 05/24, 12:14am, EDT RE: Counter Attack
Bring it on Bitch!

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113786 05/24, 12:25am, EDT Nothing new here...
So, Apple comes out with an innovative product and now MS is scrambling to catch up. Nothing unusual about this. If we look back at the history of these two companies, eventually MS will have 97% of the music market even though their product is crappy and it allows hackers to steal your account numbers. Apple will have a small number of devotees that will keep the company just above red line and we have to hear all kinds of reports of how Apple is going tank because it has such a small music market share. Maybe for once the consumers will get wise and let Apple have its day again.

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113787 05/24, 12:57am, EDT You guys are so lame.
Microsoft has had this in the works way before Apple. Just like XP was to OS X and Longhorn is to 10.3. You get 10.3 later this year and we get Longhorn some time in 2005! Take that, bitches!

You macdroids are so behind the time!

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113788 05/24, 1:07am, EDT Yeah we're lame.
^--Funny post--^

Just like the wysiwyg idea. MS had that way before even Xerox.

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113791 05/24, 2:37am, EDT complain to Amazon
... if the music samples don't play on your Macs. Believe me, they hear from a few thousand people that this doesn't work, they will rethink the WMP9 idea.

Tell them that since you can't listen to samples, you're going to buy your tunes from the iTunes Music Store. That should do the trick.

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