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Microsoft's online music store cranks up the competition with Apple.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2004
By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 2--Microsoft's MSN Music service is offering music from heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Metallica, which have never before been available on a legal music downloading service.
Microsoft Corp. rolls out a preview version of its online music store today, on a wave of heavy-metal thunder.
In a bid to play catch-up with Apple Computer's popular iTunes Music Store, Microsoft's MSN Music service is offering music from hard-rocking bands like AC/DC and Metallica, which have never before been available on a legal music downloading service.
The Dave Matthews Band and Radiohead have also agreed to sell their songs on MSN Music. The Microsoft music store will...
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