Microsoft allegedly planning 'Argo' MP3 player
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Reports from around the Web suggest that Microsoft is moving a secret internal project on which I've been briefed into the product development stage. If true--and I have no reliable information to suggest it is--Microsoft will go head-to-head with Apple's iPod in the portable MP3 player market as soon as this holiday season. Here's what the rumors reveal.
A report in the "Seattle Times" says that Microsoft's MP3 player is codenamed "Argos" after the ship that Jason and the Argonauts used to pursue the Golden Fleece. It's being developed by people from the Xbox team, and led by J Allard, an Xbox team cofounder. According to Times reporter Brier Dudley, Microsoft is firmly behind the new player and has committed "hundreds of millions" of dollars to its development and marketing.