Gaming Signal: Microsoft's audio player?

Microsoft's audio player?

Apparently Microsoft may not be working on a portable game player, but instead working on a portable music player instead. I could imagine they see Apple leveraging it's iPod and iTunes into Mac sales as a threat to the Windows business. But more likely they see a great opportunity to sell more software - in this case music - through their existing channels (through Windows Media Player.)

The most interesting part is the idea that it might be sold at a loss by the retailer (in this case Amazon), in order to generate the music sale. Or potentially, you can buy the player pre-loaded with music (although I worry about getting it out of the player, we'd have to see how that worked.)

And of course, you can imagine it will be loaded with DRM...