pcpro.co.uk - 1/23/2009
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PC Pro on Microsoft’s latest music initiative:
While companies such as Apple and Amazon have finally moved to music download services free of copy protection, MSN Mobile locks tracks to the mobile handset they are downloaded to.
Methinks whoever is behind this ought to be on ...
gamasutra.com - 1/23/2009
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divider January 23, 2009 Report: Microsoft Makes Big
Cuts At Flight Sim Studio Report: Microsoft Makes Big...
Cuts At Flight Sim Studio Redmond, Washington-based ACES Studio, the Microsoft-owned internal group behind the venerable Microsoft Flight ...
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Report: Microsoft Makes Big Cuts At Flight Sim Studio
blogs.zdnet.com - 1/22/2009
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January 22nd, 2009 Where are the Microsoft cuts
falling? Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 8:49 am...
Categories: Windows client , Windows Live , Corporate strategy , Office , Zune , Xbox , Utility/cloud computing Tags: Steve Ballmer , Microsoft Corp. , Team ...
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Where are the Microsoft cuts falling? | All about ...
venturebeat.com - 1/23/2009
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venturebeat.com —
Amid the news that Microsoft is laying off
5,000 people over the next 18 months, sources report...
that the game division has taken its share of the beating. Gamasutra reports that the Flight Simulator studio , dubbed ACES, suffered big layoffs ...
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Microsoft’s game studios take a beating in layoffs
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Microsoft Mobile Music with DRM: a new version of an old story
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... I hadn't noticed that Microsoft's MSN had started selling music to mobile phone owners, and that the tracks were encumbered by DRM (digital rights management) copy protection. Barry Collins at PC Pro did notice, and followed up by interviewing ...
Linkpost | 1.23.2009
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... - The NYTimes' John Markoff looks at the Downadup/Conficker worm. • Q&A: Microsoft defends return to DRM - In its new MSN Mobile Music service. • ...
Microsoft launches DRM Mk XIV
p2pnet news —
... actually running the store for you!
On the same day Microsoft announces its first-ever major layoff, the company relaunches an MSN-branded download site for mobile phones in the United Kingdom. Huh?
That’s what Microsoft has done with yesterday’s launch of MSN Mobile Music, a new part of the U.K. version of its MSN Mobile portal.
But it’s all perfectly logical, explains Hugh Griffiths, head of mobile at Microsoft UK, in a PC Pro interview, which kicks off with, “While companies such as Apple and ...
MSN Mobile Music timidly tests the English Channel with DRM
Betanews —
... backward by protecting downloads with DRM. The store is run by VidZone Digital Media and features .wma downloads, ringtones, and video content from three of the "big four" major labels (Universal Music Group is not yet in.) Single songs cost £1.50, videos cost £2 and ringtones go for £3. Since it is browser-based, the store is accessible to non-Windows Mobile devices, but the questions raised are three: why under the "MSN" name, why DRM, and why more expensive than competitors? In a question and answer session with PC Pro , Microsoft UK's Mobile Director Hugh Griffiths, ...
Microsoft Can't Have It All
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... has gotten. The fact that the hottest growth sector, netbooks, can't run Vista is also a problem. Sure, Microsoft gets some money for XP, but it's not as much as they get for Vista. The Vista fiasco is old news, though, so let's focus on more recent missteps. Microsoft is everywhere with everything nowadays. Take audio and video. They've got a music player, the Zune, with only about 4% market share and plummeting revenues. They're coming out with a new MSN Music service that delivers DRM-encumbered tunes at the same time the rest of the industry is headed the other way. The ...
Microsoft unveils expensive, DRM-laden ‘MSN Mobile Music’ service
MacDailyNews —
... compared to 79p on iTunes and less than that on certain Amazon tracks. Why is that? A: We're constantly reviewing our pricing and if we feel this price point is incorrect, we'll look to amend it. Q: If I buy these songs on your service - and they're locked to my phone - what happens when I upgrade my phone in six months' time? A: Well, I think you know the answer to that. MacDailyNews Take: We assume the interview is real, but it sure does read like a comedy sketch. Full article here . MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft is so doomed. cheese [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader ...
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