Microsoft And Universal: Desperate

Two things strike me about their inability to get a government-mandated levy on portable devices). And the fact that Microsoft is willing to go along with their demands for a cut of the sales proceeds is a sign of how desperate the software company is to get some support for Zune, although it's certainly not getting much Om Malik's take on this one, which is that if you look at the amount of money Universal is likely to make from their Microsoft deal, it's probably about the same as selling a single extra song to all the people who have bought an iPod. As Om puts it: "If the music industry cannot sell one additional song to consumers (and has to blackmail for more money) then, you as a business, have lost grip over your core competency." George Scriban at Global Nerdy has Comments Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl www.mathewingram.com/work and