Microsoft portable to be a totally "Integrated Experience"

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Jeff @ Jul 21st 2006 1:29PM

"But it's definitely shaping up so Microsoft's media player is going to be more media player than Microsoft."

Huh? It sounds to me like exactly what MS always does. You're puffing a bit at the end there, which is unbecoming.

Create brand new, proprietary, non-standard formats not supported by anybody else (including themselves)? Check.

Piss off all of its former partners? Check.

Copy what another company has done while pretending they invented the whole product category? Check.

What about this strikes you as not Microsoft-like?

What would be unlike MS would be to do what even most iPod owners wish someone would do - create a music store and use their leverage (as Yahoo is trying to do) to get rid of DRM. You think that wouldn't give them a huge leg up on Apple? That would pretty much destroy the iTunes Music Store by the second week of the battle. And that's half the war won right there.

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