Rather than building a Zune-branded smartphone, Microsoft plans to take the software and online store it built for its Zune media player and bring them to your television set in the hopes of emulating Apple's phenomenally successful iTunes Store, Computerworld reports.

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Back when the country was flush with cash and consumption was king, people used to trade in their Cadillacs when the ashtrays were full and buy a new iPod when the battery died.

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When Spotify fills the big-name gaps in its catalog, it'll blow every other online music service away.

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It's been nearly a year since DVD Jon made some noise about doubleTwist by promising to "liberate" iTunes purchases from their DRM , and while that's no longer particularly relevant in light of Apple's decision to go DRM-free , we're actually really digging this newly refocused public beta of the doubleTwist app, which promises to seamlessly manage all your devices from a single ...

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One by one, companies have started announcing earnings in which the full pain of the current economic crisis has hit their bottom line. Microsoft was no exception ; while revenue increased slightly year-over-year, earnings dropped slightly. The company has a tradition of hosting an additional financial call in which it looks forward to the second half of its fiscal year  and discusses ...

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One of the biggest questions about the recently proposed Microsoft retail stores is what they will look like and what they will look like and what they will sell.

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For the past few Februaries, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer makes the trek to Wall Street to provide analysts with an annual "Strategic Update" overview, in which he covers the areas where Microsoft plans to invest and why. This year, during his February 24 update, Ballmer was more about circling the wagons than staking out new, far-flung territories Microsoft planned to conquer in the next 10 ...

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mjasay writes "At the Mobile World Congress, Steve Ballmer took aim at Apple's closed iPhone ecosystem with an ironic plea for openness: 'Openness is central because it's the foundation of choice.' Ballmer has apparently forgotten his company's own efforts to vertically integrate hardware and software (Zune, XBox), its history of vertically integrating software (tying SharePoint into Office, IE, ...

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Our review partner Digital Trends tested the highest capacity Zune player - the Zune 120GB. Quote from the review: "Microsoft's fabled Zune line has done a lot of growing up over the years. From the first-gen 30GB player that we scorned back in 200...

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Sometimes people do stupid things. This is one of them.

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