Microsoft Groove (music.microsoft.com)

Can the Android client cast to a Chromecast? That is one of two major things Microsoft needs for adoption here.

"Try our site on a Windows PC or a Mac instead. Your current device won't work with our site."

Zune, is that you?

"Download the latest Adobe Flash plugin below." Well, that was it for trying it...

A useful piece of information would be the cost. I can't find it anywhere on that site. Do they expect me to sign up for a free trial without knowing the cost?

This is confusing because of their previous 'groove' offering which was the origins of Microsoft SharePoint Workspace.

At a cursory glance the music library they have is anemic, and they don't try to differentiate themselves from other offerings, so it just looks very mediocre.

Wait so in 2007 they bought groove the "slack of its time" (which sucked ass, IMO) then they killed it fairly quickly ($50k down the tubes) and now they've killed Zune to use the name Groove for music instead of a dev tool.

If there is one big difference between apple and Microsoft, whomever is naming products at Microsoft is terrible at their job. (Yes I agree that groove is a better name for a music service than Zune, but still - there just doesn't subjectively feel like their product names all live within the umbrella of a single company)

As much as we made fun of apple when we expected the iWatch - all the other products with the prefix-i at least we knew what it was they were peddling.

AFAIK, I'm not too familiar if Apple has made these errors in the past? Have they also recycled names for products completely different in nature?

First: Flash? Really MS?

Second: Cannot find a way to take MS up on their 30 day trial w/out entering a payment form.

Third: Nope. Just Nope.

Sorry, but sites that use non-retina graphics for logos and icons and such just look old and sloppy on modern devices.