Microsoft is plotting and planning a new program to rival Apple's GarageBand music creations software, according to
Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft Watch. It
is all very hush hush right now, as you might imagine, but I am glad Microsoft is thinking about how to be a player in
certain markets which I consider to be important to the average Joe.With shows like American Idol and the like, so many people are now getting into music or have been inspired to create music as of late. Personally, I don't see a lot of viable, consumer-friendly music creation software out there to help all these budding artists become who they want to be. To keep in the vein of the "magic of software" I think Microsoft needs to create more applications like this one.
1. Yep GarageBand on the Mac is great. I saw a demo of it in the Apple flagship store near Oxford St, London. I was tempted to buy a Mac just to get my hands on GarageBand, but the high cost of Apple hardware put me off.
Personally I use Microsoft Windows XP on my Dell. Why? Well because 90% of the world uses Windows, and Dell is much cheaper than Apple. It will be good to see Monaco, and I hope it is as good (if not better) than GarageBand.
Posted at 8:15AM on Apr 8th 2006 by Anon