Published by Jim Parshall on 25 Apr 2008 at 12:26 pm
Microsoft Abandons Plays4Sure and Customers
Choose the PC you want to use to play Plays4Sure content wisely. You will never be able to change it again. Microsoft yesterday announced the end of Plays4Sure, its failed partnering music system. By the end of this year all the servers will be shut down.
Yeah, I bet all those companies that “partnered” with Microsoft are feeling really good about now. First, the mothership kicks them to the curb by making their own Zune player, which was incompatible with Plays4Sure, OMG WTF! THEN, oh wait it gets better, they turn off the licensing servers so what you did buy is now stuck on one machine.
I could not write better material.
You might want to think about the better way to go for online music, iTunes and iPod.
This is another example of why I feel the Microsoft time has come and gone and it is Apple’s time now. Microsoft continues to move forward like the Titanic and not change its course. Apple is running circles around them. Like a new cruise ship, say the Mariner of the Seas, compared to the Titanic, it is just not a contest.
Tags: cruise ship, iPod, iTunes, Mariner of the Seas, Plays4Sure, Titanic, Zune