James Delahunty
4 Nov 2006 8:45
Microsoft is preparing for the launch of its new Zune music player by opening its official website and starting to downgrade its MSN Music service. MSN Music will no longer sell music tracks after the Zune store has launched according to the company. While Zune.com does have some Zune-related content from Microsoft, the official Zune site is actually Zune.net.
MSN Music has started pointing towards the new Zune site, and on November 14th, the buy button will be replaced by links to the Zune store and Real's Rhapsody service. Just like on Xbox Live, users will buy "Microsoft Points" and use them to buy tracks and albums. The points work across the Zune Marketplace and Xbox Live Marketplace.
Individual tracks will cost around 79 Microsoft points (around $0.99). There will also be a Zune Pass subscription service allowing users to rent unlimited amounts of music for $14.99 per month.
Source:
Pocket-Lint.co.uk