After HP announced that it was going to license Apple’s iPod technology for its own MP3 player, Microsoft’s answer was:
General manager of Microsoft’s Windows digital media division David Fester has suggested that iTunes’ emerging dominance would be bad for consumers, because it would limit them to the iPod.
He told journalists at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: “Windows is about choice – you can mix and match software and music player stuff. We believe you should have the same choice when it comes to music services.”
Yeaahh, riiiight …
Check the original article on Macworld UK for more details or the reaction of slashdot’s readers.
Last time Microsoft killed me with that kind of stupid declarations was last month, when they decided that manufacturers of flash memory card using the FAT filesystem should pay Microsoft $0.25 for each unit, because Microsoft introduced the FAT filesystem back in 1976 (seen on dpreview.com)
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Quand est ce qu’on a le droit a des creations musicales GarageBand sur ton site, pour les soirees au coin du feu?
Euh …
On verra ca quand j’aurai réuss à composer des morceaux un peu mieux que des trucs qui ressemblent à des chansons de Patrick Topaloff des années 80…
En attendant, pourquoi ne t’achèterais-tu pas un Mac toi-même pour essayer?…