Xbox Music not coming to Windows 7 or Windows Phone 7
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 2:16AM Xbox Music looks quite good, but not if you own a Windows Phone at the moment. A shame they couldn't make it work.
From The Verge- "Microsoft tells us that existing Windows Phone and Windows 7 users will be able to continue using the Zune Music service, providing access to the same catalogue of songs as Xbox Music. "Windows 7 will still have the old Zune client. That client will have access based on the subscriptions and the content that anyone purchased and that content can flow forward to Windows 8 but we're not touching that client just now," says Jerry Johnson, general manager of Xbox Music.
"It's a very different feature set but you'll have access to the same content," says Johnson. "We're not going to update the [Windows Phone 7 client]. There might be some iconography upgrade from what I've seen but it will continue to be a Zune product because it's not going to take on the Zune features we're going to walk through today."
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microsoft have a history of abandoning users of old services when MS get bored.
remember "playsforsure" and their DRM servers? closed down.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080422/234401923.shtml
this is why I won't buy anything encumbered with DRM that requires access to a central server to keep the content alive.
at least when Yahoo shut down their DRM-encumbered music service they refunded customers' money.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_music_refunds.php
if your software or music or videos are locked to an online service, you're not buying it, you're renting it.
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Yes the Plays For Sure thing was the first thing I thought of too.
Microsoft's advice to people was to burn their tracks to a CD and rip them. There were tools out there to remove the DRM, but rather than point people to them or provide their own version MS decided to screw their customers over.
Microsoft kinda stuffed itself for any future DRM'd ventures. It also confirmed to me that I should never buy DRM'd material.
I do buy the odd Blu-Ray, which is DRM'd and they can stop your Blu-Ray player working by sending a kill switch over the internet, which isn't good. They can also prevent it from playing newer Blu-Rays quite easily. So we don't own our Blu-Rays; we own the physical bit of plastic but they can be rendered useless by The Man.
And then there are PC games, which are getting seriously bad. They're even trying to make it so you can't sell you game 2nd-hand by making it only work for the first person who installs it. Disgusting.