Microsoft confirms the 'iPod killer' rumors are false

ok everyone...
let's listen to MICROSOFT!!! THEY NEVER LIE!!!! ...

Lost in translation :)

maybe it's just me, but the little nub on the upper right corner of the player makes it look like a phone rather than a PMP. If so, I think that could be an ipod killer. The first to come out with a phone with decent song carrying capacity (NOT 100 songs) in a reasonable form factor will make a ton of money. Whether that's Microsoft, Apple, or someone else we'll have to wait and see.

exclusively, i mean

i mean a co-project with sony developing the hardware and microsoft developing the software..

a nice sony player that works with urge, for example..

4) Yeah Sony make fantastic products, but its gonna take a while before they are the 'ipod killer'. Loads of people own iPods, and have their music in iTunes and have bought DRMed music from the store. Sony and MS will have to come up with a way of making these songs playable, come up with better features, make it cheaper and 'cooler'.

the true ipod killer will come from sony + microsoft

@tommy

and just what exactly happens when you stop paying....

The hundreds of hours you spent creating the perfect library have been wasted, you end up listening to the albums that you had before you started the renting process that you've grown out of and realise the accumulated monthly fee could have been used for so much music. You end up with nowt and out of pocket.

Don't fool yourself into thinking this is a better deal than the traditional buy-and-keep method and anything other than playsforsure vendor lock-in. There's no way in hell the riaa, microsoft et all would ever allow the consumer to get away with a good deal.

Did you really, really, really have to use a Fall Out Boy quote? Yeesh. (I acknowledge the fact that this is not an uncommon phrase, but really!)

mmm, but I think URGE is going to be a very good competitior for iTunes, because it has a feature that I think is very cool; The kind of 'flat-fee' for music, you can download as much music as you want for a small amount of money each month. I think this is very cool.