MSN Music - About What You'd Expect
The beta release of MSN's music store is out there now. As usual, they try so hard to be as intuitive and user friendly as the Apple equivalent that it was patterned after but don't quite pull it off. Purchasing a song requires you to create a Passport account. And on Safari, the experience is incredibly convoluted - with missing images, errors and a loop that won't let you escape. Sometimes the BUY button doesn't even work. Remeber that old first impression saying? All this could be because I'm being punished for being on a Mac though...
Anyway, I know it's beta, but come on guys. Step up.
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From MarketingVox:
"The store - positioned by Microsoft executive statements to the press as being an alternative to the proprietary formats used in Apple's iTunes store - works only on the software giant's Internet Explorer browser."
"Macintosh computer users will find that their version of Internet Explorer will not work with the stores purchasing functions. The Windows Media format the store uses for the music files works on almost all PCs, but Microsoft has yet to produce a Windows Media player that properly plays sound on Apple computers and those using some alternative operating systems."
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