“With Apple Computer’s dominance over the digital music business growing, Microsoft is planning to bolster its own online song store with a new subscription service later this year, sources familiar with the plans say,” John Borland writes for ZDNet.
Brland reports, “sources say Microsoft is also considering a more direct attack on Apple, seeking rights from copyright holders to give subscribers a new, Microsoft-formatted version of any song they’ve purchased from the iTunes store so those songs can be played on devices other than an iPod.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We have to wonder how Yahoo, Napster and the other Microsoft WMA-based also-rans would welcome this move.
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