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Technology Stocks : Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
MSFT 519.67+0.4%9:30 AM EST

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To: Charles Tutt who started this subject9/19/2004 11:08:13 PM
From: QwikSand   of 197
 
Ontogeny may not recapitulate phylogeny, but Microsoft recapitulates everybody, even if it means they have to toss a few million bucks into the lawyer's nest now and then. At least in this case they were honest about it. From 9/16 NYT. The rest of the column is boring.

--QS

FROM THE DESK OF DAVID POGUE

Considering Microsoft's ITunes Store

Published: September 16, 2004

On Sept. 2, Microsoft unveiled its iTunes Music Store. That sentence may sound a little strange, but that is, in fact, what happened. The Microsoft music store (in beta at music.msn.com) couldn't look more like Apple's iTunes music store (itunes.com) if you ran it through a copying machine."Apple set the bar very high," a Microsoft manger admitted. "We're trying to match that. We told our developers, 'Look at how Apple does it.'"
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