Microsoft Launches Online Music Service
Last week Microsoft launched a beta version of their online music service. It’s always interesting to see a convicted monopolist talk about consumer choice with a straight face: “we hope that someday Apple decides to join with the industry and support consumer choice“. John Gruber, of DaringFireball.net, has posted an interesting analysis of Microsoft’s use of the terms “proprietary” and “popular”.
Microsoft claims to stand against Apple Computer, offering hapless, abused consumers a choice — as long as they choose Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Windows Media Player and anything other than Apple’s wildly-popular iPod. That starts to sound less and less like choice, doesn’t it?
