Microsoft has pulled back from a plan to exclude rival media players from portable music devices using its software. Details of the plan--and the reversal--were contained in a quarterly status report ...

Microsoft's Zune music player had streaming features before it was cool, and some were never replicated.

Microsoft is gearing up to have Apple TV and Apple Music be the next applications available for download on its Microsoft Store. The apps are currently available as preview versions, which are ...

One of the first things Microsoft did when launching the new Zune was kill the 2-year-old MSN Music download service. The business reasons were plain: MSN Music was a PlaysForSure service, but the ...

While music apps like Spotify have been present on Xbox consoles for a while, Apple Music has been noticeably missing. Fortunately for Apple Music users, it was recently revealed in reports from ...

Microsoft announced today it's partnering with Apple to bring long-awaited apps from the Cupertino company to the Windows 11 and Xbox ecosystems. With that, Apple will be expanding its service ...

Microsoft's Internet music service will roll out starting Tuesday on Xbox and next week on computers with Windows 8, as the company looks to compete against Pandora Media and Spotify. Xbox Music will ...

The last time Microsoft tried to directly take on Apple in the music space it came up with the Zune -- an iPod wannabe that to consumers never was. Now the Windows-maker is jumping back into music, ...