Microsoft Partners, You Been Zunked
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| ...the real and perhaps the only story in the news is that
| Microsoft's partners - from device makers to music services - just got
| double crossed by the company they choose to believe in. I like to call
| it Zun-ked (a tiny take off on Punked.)
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| Let me break this down: Zune - the devices, the platform, and
| the store/service - will compete with everyone from Apple (of course)
| to Creative Technologies, iRiver, Samsung, Archos, Rhapsody, Napster,
| Yahoo Music and anyone dumb enough to buy into Microsoft's visions
| of Urge, Media Player, PlayForSure etc.
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| [...]
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| Take for instance, Urge which is built into Windows Vista, and
| is what I guess you could call an almost integrated experience...
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| [...]
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| Regardless, the Apple-Microsoft duopoly is an interesting opportunity
| for rest of the industry to come together and figure out a way to work
| together on open standards. Unfortunately it is not going to happen,
| so we will watch this game and see who wins.
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http://gigaom.com/2006/07/22/zune/
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