News Flash: Further Proof of Microsoft's Complete Lack of Innovation

Microsoft has recently announced that they will be releasing their own Windows music download service early in 2004. Aside from the fact that it is a blatant copy of the iTunes music store, Microsoft previously announced that they would not be creating their own music download service. Undoubtedly, this piece of software will be bundled with every version of Windows, will contain files compressed in their proprietary wma audio format, and will be lame in every possible way, aside from the fact that everyone will use it because Microsoft's ruthless practice of systematic elimination of opposing corporations has made their lousy proprietary standards the only standards, even if there are other formats, etc. which are supposed to be the standard (a run-on sentence was intended here). So join me in boycotting Microsoft's act of shanghaiing other people's ideas for the purpose of destroying them.