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Fortunately MSN even has instructions on their site to circumvent this (http://www.macroundup.com/article/47756/) but still this is not good.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/03/itms-vs-msn-music-round-one/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/03/itms-vs-msn-music-round-one/
Apple's got it right for their line of products, but obviously Apple isn't going to let their main competitor in so many things get access to their flagship product.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/03/itms-vs-msn-music-round-one/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/03/itms-vs-msn-music-round-one/Dec 19th 2005 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/03/itms-vs-msn-music-round-one/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/03/itms-vs-msn-music-round-one/
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117683,00.asp]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/03/itms-vs-msn-music-round-one/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/03/itms-vs-msn-music-round-one/http://blog.sagetechnology.com/techsage/archive/2004/08/02/209.aspx

Note that WMA audio decoding is built-into the processor in the iPod. Apple probably needed to do extra work to DISABLE WMA support. If their money is in the iPod and not iTunes like they claim, they wouldn't care if it played songs from other services - more people would buy iPod and they would have a even greater share in the player market.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/09/03/itms-vs-msn-music-round-one/http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/03/itms-vs-msn-music-round-one/Dec 19th 2005 12:04AM