MSN takes on final shot at users from the grave

Michael Gartenberg | April 23, 2008, 08:59 AM

It's been a little while since we've said RIP to MSN Music but now there's a nasty surprise from beyond the grave, where music services go to die. Seems that if you were foolish enough to have purchased songs from MSN Music, after August 30th MSFT will no longer new authorization keys for that music which means that it's now locked onto whatever computers you have it on. If you buy a new PC or need to change or update the operating system, you're simply out of luck. Bad move here... really bad move.

This could have (and should have) been handled so many different ways (after all, how many people really bought songs from MSN Music) and Microsoft could have bought some good will instead of what's no doubt going to be said about them today. Hey folks over in Redmond. Give me a call if you'd like to talk about how you can avoid doing stuff like this in the future.