[CNet] Microsoft roots for the home team--Windows

"Microsoft, which just signed an estimated $40 million deal with Major League Baseball for Webcasting rights, is offering the bargain to subscribers of MSN Premium, a subscription-based product that doesn't work with the Mac or Linux operating systems.

Here's the deal: Sign up for MSN Premium and you get the first three months free, including access to all video- and audio-casts from MLB.com. After that, you pay $9.95 a month. For the full six-month baseball season, which runs from April to September, that comes to only about $30."

The rest of this article is full of hot air, including brain-dead samples such as: "Mac users--equipped with their high-resolution "cinema" displays". Gee, I guess ALL Mac users have high-res "cinema" displays, and nobody has big, wide screens on PCs. A good chunk of the Mac installed base has small 15" screens (think iMac), but I disgress. The point is, sometimes I'm puzzled by the enormous amount of words CNet can publish about non-events. MSN runs an MLB promo, and that's it. Stop reporting a marketing fart as a nuclear blast, hmm-k?