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March 17, 2006
XBox Live - it's music now
Microsoft seem to be testing the waters on how to provide a music offering (or more) with the XBox platform. In a first move, you can now download an "Artist of the Month" music video from the XBox Live Marketplace. From the press release:
Our goal has always been to make Xbox Live a cutting-edge entertainment experience, said Peter Moore, corporate vice president of the Interactive tainment Business at Microsoft.
Notice how he doesn't use the word "game" in there. Considering that demos you can download from the marketplace weigh in at around 700 MBs, then it's not hard to imagine that Microsoft may soon be announcing a "film of the month" or "TV series of the month". They already have a payment system in place that works just fine thankyou. So while Apple may still be working on that video iPod and movie store - Microsoft is maybe one step ahead.
Posted by Matthew at March 17, 2006 09:45 AM
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