“Microsoft isn’t blanching at competition from Apple’s Boot Camp. In fact, the software giant is aiming straight at Apple with a forthcoming music-making program for Windows Vista,” Mary Jo Foley writes for Publish. “Monaco would be very similar to Apple’s GarageBand application, but would be optimized to take advantage of Windows Vista and the Aero user interface.
“GarageBand is Apple’s MacOS application for amateur musicians. It comes with 1,000 pre-recorded sampled loops, and 50 sampled or synthesised instruments that can be played using a MIDI keyboard connected to the computer, or using an on-screen keyboard,” Foley explains. “Monaco will be aimed at the same audience, sources said, and will be positioned in the same way – except that it will work on Windows only. Microsoft also is expected to play up Monaco’s use of Microsoft-devised search algorithms for finding particular music clips.”
“It’s not clear whether Microsoft is considering bundling Monaco with Vista,” Foley writes.
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Or MS could bundle it with an antivirus package that runs in the background and also sends your music compositions to the RIAA automagically to check for copyright infringement. The DRM of the future!
They’ll call it Band Aid.
“…very similar to …” translates to: …direct rip off of…
That’s just further proof that a Mac can do everything a WinPC can do.
Of course, the Mac does it first… and better… and easier…
52 days without a reboot (damn software update ruined my streak.)
How PATHETIC! Do these low lives have to copy every single thing Apple does? It’s completely sickening. I hate Microsoft!!!!!!!!
Microsoft preps Windows-only ‘Monaco’
http://www.soundboards.com/?view=95
Monaco means that MS is gambling that this new rip off of OS X will somehow fix all their problems.
“optimized to take advantage of Windows Vista and the Aero user interface”?. . . soooooooo, it’s optimized to take advantage of the keyboard, mouse, and gui windows? Wow, sign me up!
Ampar, my girlfriend and I blew beer out our noses laughing at your take. I love the Dentist drill whining sound idea, might as well thro in some low level hum and modem noise for good measure..
Virus’s included, no extra charge!
Way to go Redmond.
How PATHETIC! Do these low lives have to copy every single thing Apple does? It’s completely sickening. I hate Microsoft!!!!!!!!
…and yet now you can run Windows natively on a Mac thanks to Apple.
Too weird! Love the irony though.
They tell me BetaMax was better too, wouldn’t know, all we had was VHS, BetaMax gave up.
Ok, we at Microsoft are somewhat hurt. Apple told the world that we are still using the old fashioned BIOS even Vista. And apple is using the state-of-art EFI BIOS. And that a Mac can operate smoothly in both cenyuries.
I know we at Microsoft can’t even spell, it is centuries…
We will run via the dual boot process or the virtualization one…..Mhwahahahhaha.
Windows Elevator Band Polyphoni Ring Tone Composer with MIDI. Maybe they meant Monterey??
I bet it will be as good as Windows Movie Maker =-)
“Microsoft isn’t blanching at competition from Apple’s Boot Camp. In fact, the software giant is aiming straight at Apple with a forthcoming music-making program for Windows Vista”
Hmmm…Apple doesn’t make GarageBand for Windows, and MS has no plans to make Monaco (great name BTW [rolls eyes]) for the Mac, so how exactly are they competing? That’s like saying the new Eclipse aircraft is competing with the Ford Mustang. They play in different arenas, how can they compete?
This is good news, I was thinking about buying a miniMac so I could use garage bad, but now I will just keep my pc…
anyway the Vista OS is going to be out any day now and it is so much cooler then anything on an Apple computer
go MS !
Thanks, Heidi!
I’ll be here all week. Please remember to tip your servers.
This might explain the problem MS management has had for years:
Excerpt from MS Encarta:
in·no·vate v.<>
in·no·vat·ed, in·no·vat·ing, in·no·vates <i>v. tr.
1. To use or follow as a model.
2. To copy the actions, appearance, mannerisms, or speech of; mimic: amused friends by imitating the teachers.
3. To copy or use the style of: brushwork that imitates Rembrandt.
4. To copy exactly; reproduce.
5. To appear like; resemble.
Clear as mud?
“I bet it will be as good as Windows Movie Maker =-)”
Please don’t expect to much.
Oops. I’ll get those html tags right eventually.
Drum Roll Please….
Running Parallels virtualization app with OSX means that this direct Apple rip-off (Monaco) will in fact RUN ON OSX!
Idiots!
Sad. Truly Microsoft has really no innovation left.
What do M$ employess tell themselves when they are asked to baltantly follow Apple’s lead?
I hope that this week’s paycheck doesn’t bounce.
Oh.. they’re trying to do more than just release the OS by 2007..
ambitious of them..
$10 says it sucks. Any takers?
Bill: Gentleman, the photocopy of Tiger is almost done. Vista is coming.
Journalist: So Mr Gates, when is your next major upgrades?
Bill: We have to wait and see what Apple OS has to offer. Porbably after their second or third upgrade. We willopy, er….., I mean inspired by them. We will do a thorough research, and copy, er…., i mean……….. Anyway, we will just wait and see.
Bill and Steve B: O man, we can’t innovate anymore, we are doomed!
Steve B: Bill, I LOVE THIS COMPANY!
Monaco is a perfect name.
its the smallest sovereign state in the world apart from the Vatican.
Its an allusion to “Don’t think big”