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Sandy Sandy McMurray is a long-time technology journalist whose work has appeared in Time, the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Sun, Report on Business, Profit, and other sources. Between 1995 - 2002, Sandy wrote a weekly column about technology for the Toronto Sun, and served as Technology Editor for five Sun Media newspapers. He has been publishing on the Web since 1996.
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October 11, 2005

The Real Deal

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Microsoft settles with Real, and both parties are pleased as punch.

"I'm eager to begin working together with the team at Microsoft," the company's chief executive, Rob Glaser, said during a joint appearance with his former boss and longtime nemesis, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.
When you review the details of the settlement, it's not hard to imagine that Microsoft will eventually acquire Real outright and abandon its own music service.

With its last real problem solved, Microsoft can focus on crushing, er, competing with iTunes.

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