Microsoft Courts Hollywood Allies

[billbuckhead]

Microsoft Courts Hollywood Allies
# Humbled by Apple's success in music, the tech giant mends fences with the film world as it tries to conquer the home entertainment market.

By Joseph Menn, Times Staff Writer

REDMOND, Wash. — When Apple Computer Inc. transformed the digital music scene in April 2003 by selling songs over the Internet, the richest man in the world was not amused.

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates had struggled for a decade to get his software into consumers' home entertainment systems. Now the digital media party was finally starting, and he wasn't invited.

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<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-micro17jul17,0,3776901.story?coll=la-home-business>

Want to bet Apple gets Mactels in consumers hands before Microsoft get Longhorn in consumers hands?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Read this paragraph from the article and be mad.

Microsoft has even agreed to make architecture changes in its next-generation Windows operating system and is modifying its policy positions in Washington. Although the company previously opposed laws that would require anti-copying technology, for example, Westlake now says some might be appropriate.

[Deja Q]

2. Corporate freedom. (Consumer fascism.) THAT is what soldiers die for.

Anyone who thinks they're dying for their freedom is a fool.