Microsoft and MTV to Launch Music Service

An anonymous reader writes "According to ZDNet Microsoft and MTV have joined forces to form Urge, a new online music service. From the article: 'The company said Urge would include a subscription component, as well as allowing individual song sales. A spokesman declined to discuss pricing, saying full details would be announced next month. The company gave no specifics on launch date beyond saying it would be sometime in 2006.'"

Music?

[KingSkippus]

Music?

I know Microsoft has the music player in Windows, but what does MTV have to do with music?

Great...

[Anonymous Coward]

DRMTV

Urge?

[penguinboy]

Sounds more like a service for "adult material", not music.

Re:Serious Question

[el americano]

poisoning the minds of every youth in the U.S.A. and Canada

Don't stop there. Obviously you've never watched MTV en Español.

The 'Cyber' World

[kihjin]

Although offering few details, the company said it has worked closely with Microsoft to build a service called Urge that will let listeners experiment with new music, as well as offer "original, hand-crafted content" from MTV and its other cable channels.

Mmmm. Hand-crafted. I can see it now.

The Cyber World

A story about seven strangers who are chosen to live in a random data center. Their lives are recorded, e-mails are logged, and IMs are monitored. See what happens when people lose their Internet connection, and start getting REAL^H^H^H^HCYBER.

Don't forget, next fall:

The second season of DDoS'd.

Oh yea

[theheff]

Microsoft and MTV are basically already synonymous as it is... Bill Gates, P Diddy, Steve Ballmer, and Paris Hilton hit the clubs every night. Get with the times, yo. Microsoft sofware is just cool... that's why I bought it... you think I buy it for security?

Sounds like

[Avisto]

Sounds more like ughh.

Re:Music?

[themoodykid]

They are doing a reality show about i.

E+E=E

[earthstar]

Microsoft and MTV to Launch Music Service

What do you get when you add 2 evil M's? Another Evil !
They should have named the service 3E - for the third evil !

This is SO AWESOME!!!

[Aqua OS X]

Dude, this is SO AWESOME. Finally, someone is combining the best things on Earth... Microsoft's quality software and MTV's quality music!!!

Now, if only they could toss Wal*mart and McDonald's into the mix!

Dante's Inferno!

[farrellj]

Great, a Music Video station that doesn't show music videos anymore, teaming up with a software company that no longer produces good software. Did Dante dream this up? What rung of hell am I in now?!?!?

ttyl
          Farrell

Re:Urge?

[Anonymous Coward]

my humps, my humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps....

Music, erotic? what are you talking about?!

Microsoft + MTV

[ThePengwin]

Lets combine the two and what do u get??

very expensive Emo Mp3s that crash your computer and advertise every chance they get

sounds pretty convincing.......

Launch Date

[mattwarden]

The company gave no specifics on launch date beyond saying it would be sometime in 2006.

For those not paying close attention, please note that this is a Microsoft launch date. You'll be lucky if you can still hear music by the time they actually get this launched.

Re:No worries...

[greysky]

Lewis Black put it best:

"MTV is to music what KFC is to chicken."

Re:Music?

[Monkelectric]

My first thought was (and somehow I was imaging lewis black saying this) "Oh great the people who runied computers getting together with the people who ruined music."