Gates declares war on Apple

Bill Gates has declared virtual war on Apple’s domination of the insignificant online corporate music market.







Or as The Times phrases it, Gates is, “openly suggesting that his Microsoft could team up with Sony to get the world’s rock and pop fans to whistle to a different iTune.”

In an interview in today’s Wall Street Journal, Gates said Sony and MS could benefit from a broad partnership in digital entertainment, both having “a lot of incentive to work together” in digital-music “infrastructure,” including online-music services and protection against improper music copying, says the story.







“We’ve got to get to the point where people see the choice – the choice of how they buy and the choice of the device they use – as being a huge plus,” Gates is quoted as saying.









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