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Pro choice, eh?

The WMA thing scares me.

Vastly superior? Puh-leeze.

Seems to me if iTMS and the iPod become the standard, then other manufacturers will support both. Thats a logical conclusion.

Of course that level of success will depend on apple being very open to developers who might want to interface with iTMS and device manufacturers. Time will tell.

As for MS I wouldn't expect any less from them on this issue. They make competing software and this is a market they want. Expect the smurf to get deeper as time goes on.

-=Jax=-

MS needs to learn to STFU.

The best was when they complained about Asian countries developing a version of Linux. It's called "healthy competition". Not that MS would know about that.

Somebody should make a great big pacifier to put in that whiny baby's mouth.

Microsoft is pro-choice as long as you choose Microsoft.  The rest of the time, they just want to crush you.

I have no idea what the hell you're talking about.

Microsoft is pro-choice as long as you choose Microsoft.  The rest of the time, they just want to crush you.

I have no idea what the hell you're talking about.

SImply put, MS's strategy has been: wait until somebody else comes out with something, then develop a competing thing, but use a different standard. Then use it's overwhelming market domenance to force that on everybody. For example, MS for several years did not develop a browser, Gates did not think the internet would be a big thing. When it became obvious that the net was taking off, MS then developed IE. But they used different standards, rather than standard html standards.

MS needs to learn to STFU.

The best was when they complained about Asian countries developing a version of Linux. It's called "healthy competition". Not that MS would know about that.

Somebody should make a great big pacifier to put in that whiny baby's mouth.

assuming that by "mouth", you're referring to the end they are making all those stupid noise on, right?

which end again is the pacifier supposed to go in?  

A report in Connected Home Magazine has suggested that HP's deal with Apple will have one other side effect: "The company will be working with Apple to add support for Microsoft's superior Windows Media Audio (WMA) format to the iPod by mid-year."

They probably mean by volume, not quality. After all, by that logic, earthworms are superior to all other biomass on this planet. More advanced? No, just superior in volume.

I don't think that anyone that has ever used a lightbulb would call WMA superior over MP3/4.

-Tima likes his real standards.

MS needs to learn to STFU.

I think I'm gonna have to agree with you on this one.

What I find interesting is that while MS can sling the mud about both the iPod and iTMS anyone notice they aren't exactly offering a competing service or anything ?

I say put up or shut up. If MS has a music service to launch and they want to compete, then right on. If not running the mouth isn't going to really convince anyone of anything.

-=Jax=-

Indeed. They are only doing themselves more harm than good by bringing this up with no viable alternatives.

microsoft: this is called the fair business practices road to monopoly (or very high marketshare in the tunes biz), learn from it.

As long as everyone here is optimistic...

-tima fears for the future.

They said nothing about MSN when AOL started to come pre-packed with OEM companies...

or did they?

-tima is unsure.

Microsoft is pro-choice as long as you choose Microsoft.  The rest of the time, they just want to crush you.

I have no idea what the hell you're talking about.

SImply put, MS's strategy has been: wait until somebody else comes out with something, then develop a competing thing, but use a different standard. Then use it's overwhelming market domenance to force that on everybody. For example, MS for several years did not develop a browser, Gates did not think the internet would be a big thing. When it became obvious that the net was taking off, MS then developed IE. But they used different standards, rather than standard html standards.

That is what chaps my butt about M$.  They let other people invent the system and standards and then they pee all over them with their implementation.

IIS = httpd, only different
AD = LDAP, only different
Exchange = smtpd, only different
ActiveX = Java, only different
IE = html, only different
WINS = dhcp, only different
Netbios/Netbui = TCP/IP, only different
C# = hell, I don't know what they were thinking with this one

My PC-using friend laughs at me when Safari doesn't render a page correctly then I show him that any other browser on Windows besides IE renders the page the same way as Safari on OS X.  I then explain how IE doesn't follow the html standards and he looks at me in bewilderment.  Agreed upon protocols and standards mean nothing in the M$ world.