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the queen of the internet now approves of Apple music I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update her musical majesty Taylor Swift has shown great mercy to Apple and will allow her album 1989 to be streamed on the Apple music service just when you think they were never getting back together Swift tweeted the good news to her legion of followers on Thursday earlier this week miss Swift caused quite a stir when she publicly criticized Apple in a blog post saying she would not put her album on the upcoming streaming service because apples policy was to not pay artists for any song streamed during the 3-month free trial period well hours later Apple announced it would change its policy and pay artists for every stream because Apple knows you don't want bad blood with Taylor Swift the coolest person that everyone wishes was their best friend well Swift is one of many artists that complain streaming services do not compensate artists fairly Apple music launches next week on Tuesday it costs ten dollars a month to let you listen to any song you want on demand Swift has not allowed competing services Spotify or title to have her latest album she tweeted that this isn't an exclusive deal with Apple but rather she's going with Apple because it just felt right in the gut maybe it's like that feeling you get when you have one of those activity of probiotic yogurts now just before Apple music launches Google is hoping to take a bite out of their business by adding a free radio service google play music is similar to apple music and it costs ten dollars a month but this free version has ads and you cannot pick the songs that play but you can't pick the stations which are sorted by different activities or moods it's just like Songza because it was created by the team at Songza if you didn't already get the memo google bot Songza a year ago also interesting news at Facebook you no longer need to have a Facebook account to use the facebook messenger chat service the messenger app on iOS and Android lets you sign up with just a name phone number and photo it's Facebook's way of trying to grow its chat service to people who are reluctant to join facebook and moving to Microsoft you remember that iconic wind is XP desktop background well Microsoft has revealed the main wallpaper for Windows 10 and there was a bit of a process to create it artists were using projectors laser smoke machines and crystal dust to create what looks like a portal to another world personally I kind of like it has that quantum leap accelerator vibe going for it after all with windows 10 Microsoft is trying to put right what once went wrong with Windows 8 that's it for this tech news roundup but there's always more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey