With the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft unveiled test previews of new music and video apps. It’s a sign the company is trying to build viable competitors to iTunes and Amazon while taking ...

Xbox Music is the first digital music service to offer subscription streaming, locker storage, and the ability to purchase tracks. Can it succeed with limited initial platform support? Covering home ...

Every modern operating system necessarily has some type of music playback app. It’s nonnegotiable—like including a calculator or offering the ability to print. But gone are the days when users loaded ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 14, 2012 — Today, people need to use multiple music services to get exactly what they want. There are download-to-own music services, Internet radio services and subscription ...

When Zune was somewhat retired and replaced by Xbox Music a lot of you were bummed out. Not because a product you like had its named changed, but because the actual product somewhat regressed. The ...

Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system sometimes doesn’t get the respect it deserves. Sure, there are a ton of changes to be found on devices with Windows 8 installed on it, but there are also ...

Microsoft plans to use the full force of its dominant Windows operating system to challenge iTunes and Spotify in the digital music business. The software giant has baked its new 30-million-track Xbox ...

We’ve taken a look at the new Xbox Live, music, and video features in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. We’ve taken a look at the new Xbox Live, music, and video features in the Windows 8 Consumer ...