Will Microsoft follow Apple?

After Jobs' statement, Microsoft did not stint on words and comments, in which several interesting points flashed about the future of DRM in Zune.

At Microsoft, the following statement was made regarding Apple and EMI:

Consumers have shown their interest in music without DRM protection, and Zune is already working with various partners in this direction. This is a new stage in the development of the music industry, and Microsoft is looking for the middle where both users and rightholders are good.

Here is Microsoft’s overall DRM opinion:

Despite abolishing the use of DRM for downloading music, DRM will continue to play a key role in the digital content business. Services that provide music by subscription, an example - they use DRM to provide customers with unlimited access to millions of music tracks. In addition, DRM is used in the sale of high-quality video. We want to provide a flexible DRM-technology that would give the right to choose the method of content delivery to the right holder and the right to choose a huge amount of high-quality content to consumers.

So far these are only words - we will wait for action Who knows, maybe soon there will be a reason to buy a Zune ...