Microsoft Said to Scrap New Zune Models After Failing to Break IPod's GripBloomberg - Dina Bass - 15 Mar, 2011Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will stop introducing new versions of the Zune music and video player because of tepid demand, letting the company shift its focus to other devices, according to a person familiar with ... |
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Microsoft Axes Zune, Says BloombergBarron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - 15 Mar, 2011My former colleague at Bloomberg, Dina Bass, the long-time Microsoft (MSFT) correspondent, who has always been exceptionally well-sourced on the company, writes this evening that Microsoft will not make any new versions of its Zune line ... |
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What The Zune Taught Microsoft (MSFT)San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 15 Mar, 2011After five years of low sales, missteps, and humiliation, the Zune player is officially dead. But Microsoft learns from its mistakes, and as the successful launch of Kinect shows, it's already taken some of the Zune lessons to heart. Launch strong. ... |
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Zune Hardware's Dead: That's the Least of Microsoft's ProblemsPC Magazine - Lance Ulanoff - 15 Mar, 2011The end of Zune is sad, but expected. So why didn't Microsoft make the formal announcement? By Lance Ulanoff Dear Microsoft: Manage your message or someone will do it for you. Case in point: the recent, none-too-surprising news that the lovely Zune HD ... |
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Report claims that Zune is dead ... and I'm not surprisedZDNet (blog) - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes - 15 Mar, 2011Microsoft is pulling the plug on Zune hardware following what is described as “tepid sales,” according to a report by Bloomberg. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology ... |
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Microsoft looks like it's zeroing out the ZuneWashington Post (blog) - Rob Pegoraro - 15 Mar, 2011If Microsoft's Zune went on a farewell tour, would anybody show up? We may be finding out. An article by Bloomberg's Dina Bass cites “a person familiar with the decision” to report that the company won't introduce any new versions of ... |
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Microsoft to phase out unsuccessful Zune playerReuters Canada - Bill Rigby, Gary Hill - 15 Mar, 2011SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is not planning any more versions of its unpopular Zune digital media player, but is to continue offering music and video using the same software online, through its Xbox game console and on its Windows phones. ... |
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Report: Microsoft kills Zune playerSeattle Times (blog) - Brier Dudley - 15 Mar, 2011Microsoft is going to stop making Zune media players, ending a five-year effort to catch up to Apple's iPod, according to a Bloomberg report. The company will continue developing the Zune software that's used as a media player on the Xbox and in ... |
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Microsoft Will Reportedly Stop Making Zune DevicesHuffington Post - 15 Mar, 2011According to Bloomberg, Microsoft will no longer release new versions of the Zune player, due to poor demand. As recently as February 2011, Microsoft insisted that Zune wasn't going anywhere. In some sense, this is true. The software, at least, ... |
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Report: The Zune is dead (Bloomberg)Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 15 Mar, 2011Microsoft will stop making new versions of its Zune music player, Bloomberg News reports, though the company's music and video services will live on in Windows Phone 7, Xbox 360 and on PCs. No big surprise, considering the Zune " and all the other ... |
Report: the Zune is (Officially) DeadPC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 15 Mar, 2011Microsoft will continue to sell the existing Zune players, but has no plans to introduce new ones, the report said. This is not particularly shocking. Back in October, when Microsoft launched its Windows Phone 7 OS, ... |
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The Zune Is Finally Dead (AAPL, MSFT)San Francisco Chronicle - Dan Frommer - 15 Mar, 2011After years of mediocrity and weak sales, Microsoft is finally killing off its Zune media player, Bloomberg reports. This is the right move. Microsoft should be focusing all of its portable-gadget efforts on Windows Phone 7, to try and compete with ... |
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Microsoft kills Zune hardware, will focus on software insteadSiliconrepublic.com - 15 Mar, 2011Microsoft's Zune debuted four years after the iPod and the company spent too long focusing on North America to allow the device any chance of international success. Microsoft did not make the same mistakes with the Xbox 360 or Kinect Microsoft is to ... |
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Ding-dong the Zune is deadTECH.BLORGE.com - Ronald O Carlson - 15 Mar, 2011What was brown and had all the market appeal of bull shitake? Less than five years after they pushed out the first model Microsoft has killed the Zune, recalling back day in the claims by CEO Steve Ballmer et al that Redmond would ... |
Microsoft pulls the Zune player off store shelves, will keep "Zune" nameRadio-Info.com - 15 Mar, 2011From today's TRI Newsletter: Microsoft's business decision is not a positive development for iBiquity's HD Radio, which had found a home on the Zune mobile device and gotten publicity out of that. Now Wired says “weak demand” is causing Microsoft to ... |
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New “Zune is dead” rumors, more faint praise from Microsoft, and some rampant ...LiveSide - Kip Kniskern - 15 Mar, 2011Microsoft will concentrate on putting Zune software onto mobile phones, such as those running its Windows operating system, said the person, who declined to be identified because the decision hasn't been ... |
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Microsoft kills Zune media player, fails to upset iPodPC World India - Jayesh Shinde - 15 Mar, 2011A direct Apple iPod touch competitor bails out of the competition. In a Bloomberg report, Microsoft confirmed it's discontinuing Zune media players. Instead, Zune software will prominently feature on WP7 smartphones -- like on the HTC HD7, for instance ... |
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Is Microsoft's Zune Done?paidContent.org - 15 Mar, 2011Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will no longer make new versions of the Zune device, ending a four-plus year effort to challenge the dominance of Apple's iPod music player, according to a Bloomberg News report. The company isn't confirming the story, ... |
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Microsoft Axes Zune Media PlayerTAXI Design Network - 15 Mar, 2011Microsoft is discontinuing its line of Zune media players, ending a four-and-a-half year bid to topple Apple from its dominant position in the portable music market, reports Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter. ... |
RIP Zune Player, 2006 " 2011Mashable - Christina Warren - 15 Mar, 2011Microsoft is not planning on releasing any further Zune devices. Instead, the company plans to focus on Zune software for smartphones. Microsoft declined to comment on the future of the Zune players, but in a statement to Bloomberg noted that it ... |
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Microsoft Declares An End To ZuneCrave Online - Johnny Firecloud - 15 Mar, 2011The long, slow demise of the iPod competitor that never quite measured up has come to an end. We chat with Michael de Plater, Design Director on War in the North. Zombie movies are so common now that they're practically coming out of the TV! ... |
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RIP: Zune Gives Up Fight Against iPod, Will Live Through WP7?GizmoCrunch - Christopher Hudson - 15 Mar, 2011The Microsoft Zune music and video player may finally be put to pasture due to ow demand, giving up its fight against Apple's iPod which it was certain it could beat back in 2006 but failed to do so. Bloomberg reports that a person familiar with the ... |
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Microsoft finally kills off its Zune mp3 playerTuscaloosa News (subscription) (blog) - 15 Mar, 2011by wayne.grayson Fare thee well Zune. Twas a brave battle ye put up against the iPod tyrant. Your software victories shall live on for ages hence. Today, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft has killed off the Zune mp3 player, once touted as an iPod ... |
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RIP: Zune music playerUberGizmo - George Wong - 15 Mar, 2011Bad news for Zune fans: the Zune music player will no longer be updated, according to reports from Bloomberg. Microsoft has decided to throw the towel in for the music player market and discontinue the Zune line. ... |
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Out of tune Zune player fades outMicroScope (blog) - Billy MacInnes - 15 Mar, 2011Can it really be true? Will the Zune really be no more? Such are the rumours that Microsoft is preparing to pull the plug on its iPod killer a mere four years and four months after its launch. ... |
Farewell, Zune: Microsoft will discontinue its iPod rivalDigitaltrends.com - Molly McHugh - 15 Mar, 2011After defending the questioned longevity of its media player, a Microsoft source admits the Zune is on its way out. It's been a long time coming. Following whispers for some time now that Microsoft has been in the process of moving Zune to the great ... |
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After Unsuccessful Run, Microsoft Discontinuing Zune Media Player.Gadgetsteria - 15 Mar, 2011In sea of smartphones each more than capable of managing multiple gigabytes of music, stand alone mp3 players are a dying breed. Even Apple's might iPod " long the symbol of a truly digital world " has been waning in popularity and sales over the last ... |
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Is The Zune Gone For Good?Kotaku Australia - Michael McWhertor - 15 Mar, 2011Microsoft's attempt to dethrone the iPod, the music, movie and video game-playing hardware known as the Zune, may have just been put out to pasture. Bloomberg reports the Zune HD, introduced in 2009, ... |
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Microsoft Zune has reached the end of the road: EOL?ElectricPig.co.uk - Nick Marshall - 15 Mar, 2011According to a piece in Bloomberg this afternoon the end is coming for the Microsoft Zune. Since 2006, the media player has failed to gain enough traction to battle the Apple iPod at the cash register and now Microsoft is ready to pull ... |
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Report: Microsoft Kills Zune PlayerDealerscope - Stephen Silver - 15 Mar, 2011Microsoft is discontinuing its Zune brand of media players, Bloomberg News reported Monday, citing a "person familiar with the decision." The company will still sell existing Zune players and use Zune software in other hardware, but not make any more ... |
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