Zune Tunes With Microsoft Points

Prepaid cards charged up with Microsoft Points will be available at certain retailers or online stores, including Xbox Live Marketplace.

Individual songs will be available to purchase for 79 Microsoft Points per track, or about 99 cents, the same cost as an iTunes song.

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Microsoft's Zune Plans

Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that its Zune digital music player will allow users to share music with each other.

But what Microsoft did not include, such as video downloads, suggest that Zune will have a hard time cutting into Apple Computer Inc.'s dominant position in the portable music market.

"From what I've seen so far, it's not an iPod killer. It won't even give the iPod a headache," said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst with JupiterResearch. Microsoft "is where Apple was at 18 months ago."

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