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Originally Posted by Felix Torres
MS is not particularly religious about licensing their tech to competitors or supporting competing platforms when customers require it.
(Look at XBOX's support for iPods, DiVX, and h.264, for starters...)
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I'd have to disagree with that. In the world of consumer electronics, image is of the utmost importance. This just doesn't make sense from an image perspective, and it certainly doesn't make sense from a tech perspective--the Zune firmware is built upon Windows CE, and lives within the Microsoft ecosystem. You might recall that Exchange was licensed for Apple's iPhones. Want to take bets on when Zune capabilities are coming to the iPhone?