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posted by
martyb
on Saturday October 31 2015, @10:53AM
from the Digital-Restrictions-Management dept.
from the Digital-Restrictions-Management dept.
Microsoft has announced (non-Javascript version) (emphasis in original) that
As of November 15, 2015, Zune services will be retired. You will no longer be able to stream or download content to your device from the Zune music service. However, Zune devices will still function as music players and any MP3 content that you own on the Zune device will remain there. You'll also be able to transfer music to and from your Zune player.
Note Content that was purchased with DRM may not play if the license can't be renewed.
Existing Zune Music Pass subscriptions will be converted to Groove Music Pass subscriptions.
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday November 01 2015, @07:19AM
Which is that thanks to the pathetic "leadership" of Ballmer, who decided that becoming a bad Apple clone was the future of the company? Yeah thanks to his stupidity they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory as they had THE killer app that was growing like mad and could have actually taken on the iPod and actually had a chance at winning the battle!
What was that killer app? One word....Playsforsure. With PFS they had for media what they had done for PCs back in the day by coming up with a single "universal format" that worked on everybody's devices and all the music sites, except Apple of course. With PFS it didn't matter if you bought a $20 MP3 player from a checkout line or a $400+ top of the line HDD based player with PFS it all "just worked". Didn't matter if it was Napster or Musicmatch or any of the other sites, with PFS it "just worked" and because of this sites could compete on features and pricing so you had a ton of options at a time when the media companies wouldn't sell shit without DRM.
So what happened? Simple Apple has exclusive control of THEIR fairplay, right? Well that means MSFT just HAS to do the exact same thing, just slap a Winflag on a Toshiba Gigabeat, call it something "hip" like...uhh I don't know, Zune, and there ya go, surely we'll win all those users of those music sites we killed right after fucking them with PFS and making their players worthless, after all we're MSFT, who doesn't love us?
The sad part is we are seeing this "make a bad clone" bullshit even to this day, look at Nadella who really only had to do ONE thing, just one, to make Win 10 a megahit, just make it win 7 with the behind the scenes speed boosts of Win 8, what do we get? A bad Google ripoff with more phoning home than Android and ChromeOS combined....but hey, we're MSFT, folks won't mind giving us all their data because they love us...right? Sigh, the legacy of Ballmer in action, fucking the company by trying to badly clone that which is popular ATM instead of actually listening to their customers, ugh.
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