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i'm loving the HECK outta this!! let's hope that MS and it's buddies keep making technical gaffes like this one!!

first yet again!

this is business as usual for Microsoft... hardly news

But, I'm having problems with my old songs & iTunes 4.9 Somebody else has had some problem?

Sucks for Sure

MDN...it will be newsworthy if/when a Microsoft "solution" actually works seemlessly.

The slogan designed to instill fear in people in order to generate solidarity. Sounds republican.

Yes. Fear and Solidarity. Vast Right-Wing conspiracy. No fear there to generate solidarity, I guess.

What on earth is a "Garanimal?" Is this a reference to something, or is it just a nonsense word?

john, you're showing your age...or lack thereof...

Garanimals were clothes with little animal patches. Match the patches and you match your outfit.

http://www.garanimals.com/free_activities.htm

If you were wondering

"must" is my MDN magic word!

http://www.garanimals.com/

MS always seems to come up with these weird ass names for their technologies.

Im surprised they didn't name it Microsoft Digital Media Assurance Protocol.

MW "around" as in around a year and a half from now, people will realize Microsoft still sucks.

No, no, no. They got it all wrong!

It's not "Plays For Sure", it's "Plays 'For Sure'". As in <objects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=44998634&selectedItemId=44998618">this song</A>.

See, that's what the QA Department tests with. If it plays that song, it plays "For Sure."

I smiled when I read this, and then laughed hysterically when I realized the guy who wrote the column was DEAD SERIOUS!

Wow - how pathetic is this?

More misguided tripe from MDN and the zealots love to shout "yay."

While "PlaysForSure" apparently has two tiers of compatibility -- DRM and non-DRM -- there's still a *much* larger selection of devices in each tier than Apple offers for iTMS purchases.

So while you may find that the iPod is a superior device to all the others, and that may guide your decision to lock into their hardware solution, you can't honestly believe that their model is in any way superior to PFS.

MW: "saying" -- I'm just saying.

Apparently if you get all of your "Plays for sure" digital music players for free, then the fact that it doesn't actually play is "No biggie." No biggie? What is he talking about. Microsoft warranted that my music player with a bright blue logo will play Microsoft digitally restricted music. Does it? No. Lawsuit? Why not? When is the public going to start demanding that Microsoft live up to its bullshit promises?

"So while you may find that the iPod is a superior device to all the others, and that may guide your decision to lock into their hardware solution, you can't honestly believe that their model is in any way superior to PFS."

I do believe it's superior, only in so far that the Apple model actually works without having to put an inaccurate moniker on it.

"PlaysForSure" on Windows-only!

'nuff said!!

Let's add this to the growing list of MS caveats: When they come up with a catchy phrase billing how good something "just works", it doesn't.

"Im surprised they didn't name it Microsoft Digital Media Assurance Protocol."

Microsoft Windows Media Player Digital Media Assurance Protocol Explorer for Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 98SE, 2K, ME, and XP. Let's see Ballmer spray that out in one of his frenzies.

Good one Eric24601.

At least "Sucks for Sure" would be truth in advertising.

If your worried about ensuring compatability, just buy a player and use the software it comes with. This logo thing is an extra bonus. If Microsoft owned all the manufactures everything would work together, but all they can do is make recomendations.

Plays for Sure is not a reccomendation it is a promise. Or more accurately it is at best a broken promise for this is the real world of Microsoft. Quite scary how many PC 'clones' can't wait to grow up and find a nice rich niche job misleading the consumer and making inane moralistic excuses for so doing. The image of them holding mutual masturbation parties as they get off to a smiling image of the great Godly Gates (or is that Stevie Budha Bulmer) offering thanks for their unswerving obedience brings a tear to your eye.

Microsoft is so popular and so big, they are like the republican party; they can say and do what ever they want, they can do no evil in they eyes of thier rabid supporting sheeple. They only get more popular with complaints, and more popular with bugs and crashes...It's like "Fun" for the people who get jaffted by Microsuck. "Woweee, did ya see that, hon? finnaly, finnaly the famous blue-screen of death, yay! har har"[insert M$ cash regestar sounds here...cha-ching].