“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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The only innovative things Microsoft delivers is excuses.
M$ missing the point again. GarageBand doesn’t exist in it’s own universe. It’s a little bundled app that basic users can cut a few ideas on, and when they’re ready they move up to the big daddy app Apple produces (Logic). GarageBand acts as a sales pitch to enable Apple to get Logic into every serious musician’s studio within 10 years.
Microsoft’s half hearted rip off is only there to try and prevent people switching to the Mac in the first place. It’s the “me too” attitude that is the root of all the blog site despair.
What Windows Movie Maker is to iMovie, and Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is to iPhoto, Monaco will be to GarageBand. In other words, it will be semi-functional garbage nobody uses. That is, assuming it ever ships. My guess is it’ll be axed before the final release of “Vista” sometime in the next couple years just to get that hideous beast out the door.
I wonder…
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Monaco is code, It will be called “GarbageBand”
“Monaco is code, It will be called “GarbageBand””
This is another example of MS not being able to focus on what is important. Apple’s GarageBand is a fine app, I’m sure. I’ve played with it a little bit, but I’m no musician (weekend or otherwise). While I’m sure a small percentage of users love GarageBand (and would hate and ridicule a MS rip-off), it’s probably a non-issue for most computer users out there. MS needs to focus on getting Windows Vista completed and out the door. Otherwise, “would be optimized to take advantage of Windows Vista and the Aero user interface” is less than meaningless.
Great, NateSki has already reverse-engineered the real name of this application, before we can even get it to beta. We’re gonna have to think of something else….
So it will be windows-only.
like garageband is OSX-only.
once again MDN has a retarded headline.