Xbox Music To Go Silent For Unpaid Memberships

<p>Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s streaming music service will soon become subscriber-only&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Effective <strong>Dec&period; 1st <&sol;strong>this year&comma; the free Xbox Music streaming feature currently available on Windows 8&comma; Windows 8&period;1&comma; and over the Internet will be discontinued in all countries where it is offered&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you&&num;8217&semi;ve already purchased music through Xbox Music&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll continue to have access to the music you own&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Microsoft says that it is discontinuing the free service because it is &&num;8220&semi;focusing Xbox Music to deliver the ultimate music purchase and subscription service experience for our customers&period; With Xbox Music Pass&comma; you have access to millions of songs on your PC&comma; tablet&comma; Xbox&comma; phone&comma; and the web&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Subscriptions to Xbox Music Pass will be &dollar;9&period;99 &lpar;£9&rpar; a month&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;support&period;xbox&period;com&sol;en-US&sol;xbox-on-other-devices&sol;windows&sol;free-xbox-music-streaming-retirement-faq">Xbox&period;com<&sol;a> &amp&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;joystiq&period;com&sol;2014&sol;10&sol;23&sol;free-xbox-music-streaming-to-stop-in-december&sol;">Joystiq<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;