Microsoft also had the PlaysForSure platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure . This pl

Microsoft also had the PlaysForSure platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure . This platform included standards and certification for hosting music for sale and for physical services that would download and play such DRMed music. Rhapsody was one company that hosted a certified marketplace and sold the iRiver line of devices that worked reasonably well. They went on to buy the Napster brand eventually. They (Rhapsody) even had a MUSIC SUBSCRIPTION service many years before anyone else did and it worked well. Everybody trashed it though saying nobody wanted to rent music. Then of course Microsoft Zune didn't use the platform and developed their own thing. I think PlaysForSure is dead, but maybe some stub lives on. EDIT: clarified subscription service was Rhapsody, not Microsoft