Microsoft offers free music

Microsoft is appealing to their target audience, particularly teenagers and young adults who play Xbox or have windows 8, by allowing them to stream selected music for free. This new feauture is called Xbox Music. There is a catch though, you have to be willing to listen to an audio ad every 15 minutes.

What Natalie's Media Spot says:

This software is much like an app called spotify, however microsoft have taken it one step further and differentiated themselves from the app by making it free.

So, let's look at the pros and cons of Xbox Music. Firstly, the pros: it's free! and you can use it on your tablet whereas other software like this has fees for tablet use. The cons do outweigh the pros though. You can not download the songs and play them offline unless you wish to pay fees, you will need to have a good amount of internet data and you have to listen to an ad break every 15 minutes. If you can push all that aside though, it's a great idea. As long as you are connected to the internet, it allows you to chose any songs you wish to listen to and away you go!

The Australian 2012, 'Microsoft offers free music', Australian, 15 October, viewed 16 October 2012.
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