Microsoft Music Download Service
It seems Microsoft is getting into the music file-sharing business with a download service to rival Napster II and all the rest in their attempts to get something – anything – out of online music.
Will it be a genuine effort to make file sharing pay (Napster II) or just a way to get people into the virtual store (iTunes)?
Ask Bill and the Boyze.
In the meanwhile, "Microsoft is looking for a ’senior-level marketing candidate’ for the new Microsoft Music Download Service, reports the Internatinal Herald-Tribune here.
It goes on, ‘The first duty of this candidate will be to finalize the business plan for the Microsoft Music Download Service,’ the job description said."
Micro$oft already has a service running in Europe through Britain’s On Digital Distribution (OD2), a ‘digital service provider’ co-founded by Peter Gabriel.
"Microsoft plans to offer music downloading in the United States beginning next year," the Tribune quotes a Micro$oft spokeswoman as saying, adding that it’ll offered through Microsoft’s MSN Web sites.
