Microsoft launches MSN Music service
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Microsoft Corp. is offering a &quot;preview release&quot; of MSN Music, its answer to Apple&#39;s popular iTunes Music Store. The music download service is available in the United States exclusively for users of the Windows
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MSN, Microsoft Corp.'s Web portal,  said on Tuesday it will make a big push to stream live concerts  to its users after signing an exclusive global partnership with  Control Room, the company behind the web broadcast of last  year's Live 8 event.
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Microsoft Corp., hoping to take a bite out of Apple Computer Inc.'s highly popular online music service, is gearing up to launch its own Web site for selling songs over the Internet.
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Microsoft will jump into the music-downloading market this week, with the rollout of a new MSN online-music service that will compete with Apple&#39;s iTunes and RealNetworks&#39; Rhapsody.
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MSN Music Store Launches  MSN has unveiled MSN Music Store, their pay per download WMP driven system which is predicted to give Apple iTunes, Napster, and RealNetworks a run for their money in the realm of legal music download search. MSN Music Service will initially offer music downloads of 500,000 music ...
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MSN, Microsoft Corp.'s  Web  portal, said on Tuesday it will make a big push to stream live  concerts to its users after signing an exclusive global  partnership with Control Room, the company behind the web  broadcast of last year's Live 8 event.
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Microsoft responded quickly to Apple&#39;s recent European expansion for its iTunes service by launching its own online music service MSN Music in eight European countries.
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Microsoft's MSN business unit has told MSN Premium customers to expect the launch of MSN Video 2 sometime today. MSN Video is a free service for subscribers offering news, sport and entertainment programming that is entirely subsidized by advertising revenues. However, despite rumors to the contrary, MSN Music will not launch today.
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Microsoft is set to unveil the latest version of its media playback software on Thursday, giving its partners powerful new tools for selling digital entertainment services even as it launches its own music download store.
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Microsoft Corp. launched a new online  store for music downloads on Wednesday, taking direct aim at  Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iTunes music service.
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Microsoft Corp. rolls out a preview version of its online music store today, on a wave of heavy-metal thunder.
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British music giant HMV on Wednesday announced plans to launch a digital music service next year, using software being developed by Microsoft.
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Microsoft Corp. unveiled the latest version of its entertainment-focused operating system Tuesday, seeking a broader audience on a wider array of computers and stoked by partnerships offering music, movies and even recorded books.
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People have been listening to music on their computers for a long time now - but not quite like this. Microsoft is test-marketing a new Web-based radio service that sounds almost like a local radio station - except without all the interruptions.
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In case you have not heard, Microsoft just upped the ante in the digital music war when it launched its Windows Media Player 10 and its beta online music store this month.
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MSN HAS introduced a &quot;preview&quot; version of MSN Music in the US which allows downloading of music using Windows Media Player 10 or a web browser.
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Microsoft have made a beta version of their new music store available to the public. The store is entirely browser-based and does not require a separate client like iTunes.