‘Dogs & Cats, Living Together…’
Microsoft formally announced the big news last week during its annual Build conference for developers in Redmond, WA. As Fortune says, “The decision to bring the iTunes app is significant given both companies’ past reluctance to make that their respective services, like Microsoft Office, compatible with the other’s. Bringing iTunes to the Windows Store helps improve the perception that Microsoft is more open to working with other companies and technologies than previously. Microsoft also said Thursday that it would let people download three different versions of the Linux operating system from its Windows Store, which is a big change considering Microsoft once considered Linux a threat to its proprietary Windows operating system.”
Naturally, Apple stands to gain through this arrangement if those Windows users are now able to download iTunes to their PCs and also sign up to the Apple Music streaming service.