"Microsoft calls such vision irresponsible.....while simultaneously claiming they are lobbying those same labels to make it happen anyway."
It's like our politicians; throw lots of mud and hope something sticks. Sounds very defensive and unfocussed.
The best comment I've seen describing Microsoft's response is by John Gruber at DaringFireball.net
http://daringfireball.net/2007/
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"The way Reindorp whiplashes right from calling Jobs “irresponsible, or at the very least naïve” to calling him a bandwagon-jumper two sentences later — that actually makes total sense to me. He pretty much goes through all five stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — in just two paragraphs."
BTW, there's a great reaosn why fear is descending among the Zunies. A DRM-free iTunes Store would effectively kill Zune's music subscription business (or any othe subscription system, for that matter).
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