Microsoft Knows Nothing About Music!
Posted in Life and Thoughts, Media and Entertainment, Software Development, Tech News on May-09-2008
For people who had bought any music from Microsoft before, you should really think how and why you did that. More info here. Just remember that your music are dead after August 31, 2008. Looks like Microsoft extended the cutoff date to 2011.
Just to add more salt to this discussion, Microsoft knows nothing about web standards, the internet as a whole and building online utilities (what silverlight!) and contextual money making advertising networks (like Google Adsense and Yahoo Panama). Thanks goodness they failed to takeover Yahoo and there’s Google.
The only things that Microsoft are good at?
1. Windows XP (nope, not Vista!)
2. Microsoft Office (but then we have StarOffice/OpenOffice)
3. Visual Studio
4. SQL Server
And MSN Messenger and MySpace and the XBox and the XBox 360 and surprisingly Zune.
And Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player!
xbox 360 is actually cool, but i simply don’t understand how people with a zune is living with it from the beginning.
Huh? I mean they are all good, popular and Microsoft did it right.
Zune’s actually not bad. Most people I know either use MSN and MySpace is the largest social network in the world. It just works. Not everything by Microsoft is bad. They occasionally get something right.
I agree that not everything from Microsoft is bad, at least not xbox and xbox 360, and the items that I’ve listed above in my post.
The MSN network is not bad, but MSN Live Messenger is slow and resource hungry, just like IE and windows media player. I would suggest people use Pidgin, Meebo or Digsby instead which connects to MSN along with ICQ, AIM, YIM etc at the same time.
I’m sure Myspace doesn’t belong to Microsoft. It belongs to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. I think you were probably talking about MSN Windows Live Spaces. If you really want to blog, Live Spaces is simply no way near wordpress, blogger or even movable type.
As for Zune, maybe i was wrong, as it’s a personal preference to what mp3 players people choose to buy. Just a note that Zune’s market share is certainly much lower than iPod and even slightly behind Sandisk.
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