Microsoft to drop PlaysForSure tag

Microsoft will stop using the PlaysForSure tag for its basic music DRM. PlaysForSure has been stuck on digital music players which work with the traditional Microsoft DRM system for about three years, aiming to communicate to consumers that the players are compatible with download services that use a Microsoft system - which is most of them bar iTunes and those that provide music in a DRM free MP3 format - oh, and Microsoft's own download platform the Zune Marketplace. Moving forward PlaysForSure compliant players will be marked "Certified For Windows Vista", which will be confusing for the majority of the population still running Windows XP.