Project “Omni”
Microsoft’s new streaming music service, codenamed “Omni”, is based on the Seeqpod engine integrated with Bing search & Live ID. It is a Silverlight RIA on Zune, WinMo, Xbox, Mac & PC. It’s tied into Zune store to facilitate purchases. Revenue comes from sales through the Zune store & ads (one 10-second spot every half-hour, approved by MSFT) during streaming. The service pushes a few sponsored songs & similar songs (possibly 1 full length song every half hour) through during a listening session. All the major labels are on board.
Please regard this information as firmly non-confirmed as the source is a new person, previously untested for reliability.
Related articles @ Wired & The Telegraph
