Microsoft shows off online music software

THE BIGGER BOYS aren't going to let Apple's Steve Jobs have everything his own way, it has emerged.

The LA Times reports today that Microsoft is already showing off its answer to Apple's iTunes (MiTunes?) to a number of record industry executives.

And the desperation derby of selling online music has many more runners and riders, the same newspaper reports.

Those include Amazon, Yahoo, AWOL Time Warner CNN and Viacom, the paper said.

But this race is likely to end up like the UK's premier horse race over fences, the Grand National - some of the nags are bound to break a leg and end up being paid a visit by a man equipped with a humane killer.

Here's the LA Times . It's free, but they want a few of your details. µ