GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us that (surprise!) Microsoft is about to launch a rival product to directly compete with the wildly
successful iPod line. We have to wonder if they will give it away in order to
garner market share. At the moment, it is just speculation that the player will
actually materialize and there are no pictures of the device to be found,
however, the story is coming from a variety of sources and it is beginning to
seem likely that a player is on the way. The project is supposedly being
overseen by Microsoft's J. Allard. "Allard also oversees within
Microsoft the industrywide XNA™ initiative - an ecosystem of interchangeable,
interoperable software tools and technologies from Microsoft, middleware and
game development companies."
The company is also said to be planning to
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The report from C|Net indicates that MS is in
negotiations with television stations as well, in order to be able to
offer shows for download. Well, this seems to be what Microsoft does best.
They watch what is successful, then they launch a competing product with added
bells and whistles. Let's see if they have the ability to de-throne the Apple
device. The iPod interface is amazing and it will be difficult to improve on
that! It should be quite an interesting struggle.
Source: C|Net
