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http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article305638.ece

Sounds like there is going to be an interesting battle there....

lol apple would lose out very bad if this took place

That sucks, Microsoft is just Pissed because iPods are beating their mp3 players  I am on apples side in this dispute...

More like the people who own iPods will have to pay it

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Originally posted by TylerG
That sucks, Microsoft is just Pissed because iPods are beating their mp3 players  I am on apples side in this dispute...

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I agree

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Originally posted by mwe99
More like the people who own iPods will have to pay it

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How?

A patent is a patent. Apple have no leg to stand on really, unless they can prove what they are claiming, which is that MS filed the patent AFTER the iPod (which would mean they did it deliberately for this reason).

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Originally posted by DJeX
   

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Originally posted by mwe99
    More like the people who own iPods will have to pay it

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How?

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Im not sure either, but Im guessing by putting the price of the iPod up?

i read that microsoft are going to make competition?

better then the ipod?
better then the zen micro?

anyone think it will be decent?

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Originally posted by Stigmata
i read that microsoft are going to make competition?
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anyone think it will be decent?

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If there's one thing MS are really good at, it's making nice GUIs more a wide audience. So yes, if Microsoft do make competition I think you can expect a really good GUI with very good hardware. Even though MS don't do a lot of hardware work, they do know a lot about hardware. Hopefully a GUI something like PalmOS.
I think if MS did their work right they could do a really good job.

The thing they may mess up is something dumb like making it a player that only does .wma files, and files have to be converted before they can go on the player. However for marketing reasons, I doubt they will do this, but they won't likely want the term "MP3 player" to be used, something like "Portable audio file player"

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Originally posted by Stigmata
better then the zen micro?

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microsoft already has something with creative

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Originally posted by Fourjays
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Better links...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/10/microsoft_apple_patent/
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=12312