Just weeks before Apple is expected to release its iTunes Radio streaming music service, Microsoft has released Xbox Music for iPhone. Xbox Music was first unveiled last October and allows users to listen to ad-supported or ad-free music (depending on whether they have a paying subscription or not) on their Microsoft devices, such as Windows Phone, Xbox 360, and Windows PCs.
With today's launch on iPhone and Android phones, Microsoft appears to acknowledge that it thinks Apple's iTunes Radio could become a big player on the streaming music front -- something it hopes to stave off with the expansion of Xbox Music.
Today's release of the app offers users the following:
Stream ad-free music from a
