If a ruling from a judge in eastern Texas sticks, Microsoft will have to give up selling its Word franchise in 60 days. But that’s a very big if. In other news: Look at this cool ad for Microsoft Germany!
Music industry critics rightly castigate the music business for trying too hard, for too long, to hang on to the doomed CD business. Then they howl when music companies try to make money by selling music in other formats. But strip away incendiary terms like “music tax,” and the trial balloon that Warner Music Group is floating makes sense.
Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider.
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
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