Microsoft Unveils 'Urge' Music Service 582
CHaN_316 writes "CNNMoney has an article entitled, 'Gates unveils his Urge.' From the piece: 'Bill Gates aims to take over your living room and late Wednesday he unveiled a new music service and new software to do it. Using an appearance with Justin Timberlake, the Microsoft chairman debuted a new music service, Urge, to directly compete with the iTunes music store and interface. Urge launches with over 2 million tracks for purchase or as part of an all-you-can eat subscription, an option the iTunes music store doesn't have. The offering will include exclusive material from MTV.' Begin the living room wars we must." Confirmation of an earlier story on this topic.
Urge? (Score:5, Funny)
Urge to... (Score:3, Funny)
Well, Bill killed it right off to bat... (Score:5, Funny)
names (Score:2, Funny)
Rhymes with Purge (Score:5, Funny)
MTV? (Score:1, Funny)
where are they gonna get the music from?
Justin reaches over (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Urge? (Score:5, Funny)
No shit! Did Microsoft outsource their Department Of The Obvious? They should have caught this one early.
Better uses for the brand name Urge:
1. pron site
2. dating service
3. street drug
4. hyper caffinated drink
5. line of hiphop clothing
6. condoms
Can anyone do better?
Why do I have an urge to purge this scourge? (Score:5, Funny)
Two feet or ten feet, Justin Timberlake still sounds like crap. Whenever I listen to him, I get a temporal lobe malfunction.
I'll bite (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Give us what we went, not what you want to give (Score:5, Funny)
A great man once said, "I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient."
There is the critical difference... (Score:5, Funny)
Only one of these choices actually makes music. Coincidentally only one of these companies has a successful online music store.
music player? (Score:4, Funny)
MTV is involved? So I'm guessing this service won't have any music.
Re:Urge? (Score:5, Funny)
The reason this is under the "Apple" category (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well, Bill killed it right off to bat... (Score:5, Funny)
Right. Because the service is clearly aimed at all of us listening to the King Crimson Oggs we ripped from vinyl and now play through our home-modded toaster ovens that we've set up to stealthily leech bandwidth from the Starbucks upstairs in the commercial space above the studio apartment we've converted from the freight elevator,
Face it, d00d. We are so not Chairman Bill's target audience for this product. I don't even think I could pick Justin Timberlake out of a police line-up.
Urge makes me want to regurgitate (Score:1, Funny)
changed from:
'I want my MTV!'
to:
'You'll want our MSTV, and you'll like it!'
Resistance is futile,
we are the Urge!
Well, (Score:3, Funny)
Christian rock (Score:5, Funny)
Christian rock is like some youth minister's idea of what rock and roll is: you don't even have Link Wray or the Rolling Stones, no it's derivative boy band music and hair metal. And Urge is like some out of touch dorky software mogul's idea of hip -- aesthetically perfectly paired with Stryper, Petra and Creed.
``Have you heard about this totally praiseworthy and righteous new music service, Urge? Rock on! Praise the Lord, man!''
When I have the urge... (Score:2, Funny)
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Re:Urge? (Score:3, Funny)
What I want to know is:
1) Was he wearing a long trench coat at the time?
2) When he did it, were the girls on the floor, crying their eyes out in laughter?
3) re: #2, did he explain this was only version 1.0, wait unless they see the upgrade
4) Did anyone call the police & report this?
you see darling, I get these urges...
Re:Well, Bill killed it right off to bat... (Score:2, Funny)
He's the one with his hand... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:There is the critical difference... (Score:5, Funny)
Err no, wait.
Re:Give us what we went, not what you want to give (Score:3, Funny)
Wow.
Re:Give us what we went, not what you want to give (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, that's pretty much where I stopped reading. I really need to get some of the drugs they must be using down in Redmond. Delusion like that must be an incredible high.
I did like the "all you can eat" idea, though. The real question is "If I unsubsrcibe to the service, does every song in my collection just disappear?" If the answer is "yes" then my answer is "no thanks."
-Eric
Re:There is the critical difference... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:There is the critical difference... (Score:3, Funny)
It's a trick question, of course. The answer is "neither."
-Eric
Re:Urge? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Multiple Computers per Song (Score:3, Funny)
There's another 4 in the living room, plus a Showcenter 200 which gets used a lot for playing MP3s.
I'm maybe not your average user, but 5 uses really isn't a lot. Even my Mac Mini would use 2 (OSX 10.4 and OSX 10.3 boots) for one machine.
Then again I won't pay itunes prices... my local music store sells the real CDs for less.
Yes, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Rhymes with Purge (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Even more interesting... (Score:2, Funny)
Did they just eat some undercooked chicken?
Re:Urge? (Score:3, Funny)
I thank yow....
Re:Urge? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:He's the one with his hand... (Score:3, Funny)
That doesn't help. Who's Janet Jackson?
Re:Smart move (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, I'm betting that in 30 years the DRM will have been cracked and I'll have all my music burned to holographic cubes or whatever replaces DVDs.
Re:Look at the sales numbers... (Score:3, Funny)
You're forgetting about economies-of-scale. MS is obviously making it up on volume.
Re:Urge? (Score:2, Funny)