As you might have spotted, due to the work I’m doing at the moment I keep a pretty close eye on Microsoft and what its doing. Over the past week or so I think thing they’ve had a fairly good week, news about the Live Mesh platform has started to arrive and it looks great, most of the comment I’ve read about it has been very positive.
So why go and do this? ‘Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys‘. It looks like MS are decommissioning the infrastructure that support the DRM used for music bought on the old MSN Music site. What genius made that decision? How expensive can it be to keep those servers running? Surely they’re never going to get busier or require scaling now MSN Music is gone. Given all the free storage and hosting MS is throwing about chopping off this service can’t really improve the bottom line can it? All this will do is generate bad press and piss people off… it seems crazy. Oh well.
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