Microsoft Is Said to Stop Releasing New Models of the Zune

Release Date ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ in Bloomberg

Apple: The world's most important Windows software developer? ZDNet (blog) - David Morgenstern - 16 Mar, 2011 According to Microsoft, the Zune platform isn't dead; instead, it's just finding a new hardware home inside a phone. Meanwhile, everyone outside of Redmond and the pathetic few Zune fanboys, ...
Microsoft poised to axe Zune player Financial Times - Richard Waters - 16 Mar, 2011 Microsoft is to stop making new versions of the Zune player, once the focus of its efforts to counter Apple in digital consumer electronics, as it shifts its focus to a broader software strategy to try to outflank its ...
Zune Swoon PC Magazine - John C. Dvorak - 16 Mar, 2011 Yay, the Zune is finally dead. The MP3 player was doomed from the start because of Microsoft's poor image and decision making. By John C. Dvorak This week's pronouncements�"by the media mostly�"that the Zune is either dead, a zombie product, ...
Zune Hardware is Dead; What about the Name Zune? PCWorld - Harry McCracken - 16 Mar, 2011 Analysis: It's not news (if still not official) that Microsoft has lost interest in this product line -- but the company isn't abandoning the market. By Harry McCracken, Technologizer It's not official until someone at Microsoft says it's official, ...
R.I.P. Microsoft Zune. We'll always have the memories... Entertainment Weekly - Annie Barrett - 16 Mar, 2011 Congratulations, Zune owners: Your Zune is now an antique. Microsoft Corp., will stop introducing new versions of the Zune music and video player “because of tepid demand.” Didn't everybody have a either a close encounter or a ...
Zune music player left in the dust as Microsoft gives up on hardware: report Independent - 16 Mar, 2011 Microsoft's Zune music player may be playing its last tune as demand for the device dwindles. In a March 15 article Bloomberg reported that Microsoft will stop producing new Zune hardware and will instead concentrate on integrating its Zune software ...
Microsoft To Phase Out Zune Franchise? InformationWeek - Paul McDougall - 16 Mar, 2011 Software maker is said to have decided not to produce future versions of the MP3 player, which failed to catch on with consumers. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek Microsoft is reportedly set to abandon its Zune MP3 player franchise due to poor demand ...
Fond memories of Microsoft Zune ... in brown, of course msnbc.com - Todd Bishop - 16 Mar, 2011 "This isn't an iPod killer. This isn't even going to give the iPod a bad case of the sniffles." �" tech industry analyst Michael Gartenberg, speaking to me in September 2006. I remember my gut reaction to the first Microsoft Zune. ...
	Zune player victim of tepid demand CBC.ca - 16 Mar, 2011 Three Microsoft Zune portable media players show the different steps to buying songs over the Zune's built-in FM radio. Bloomberg is reporting that the company has stopped making new models. (Microsoft/The Associated Press) Microsoft plans to stop ...
Microsoft decides to put its Zune player to bed Inquirer - Lawrence Latif - 16 Mar, 2011 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS ALSO-RAN Microsoft has finally put its Zune music player out of its misery, with reports that the company will no longer develop products for the Zune. Microsoft launched its Zune music player back in 2006 to ...
Zune hardware apparently dead, software and services live on CNN - Peter Bright - 16 Mar, 2011 Since their introduction in 2006, the Zune players always played second fiddle -- if that -- to Apple's iPod line. (Ars Technica) -- Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft will cease development of its family of ...
Further reading: Zune RIP and Facebook plans discount deals Financial Times (blog) - Phill Tutt - 16 Mar, 2011 Microsoft is not planning to release any more of its Zune devices, Mashable reports. The music and media player was launched in November 2006 to take on Apple's iPod, however sales never came close to beating its rival device. ...
Microsoft Is Said to Stop Releasing New Models of the Zune Bloomberg - Dina Bass - ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ Microsoft 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 ...
Microsoft Axes Zune, Says Bloomberg Barron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ My 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 ...
What The Zune Taught Microsoft (MSFT) San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ After 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. ...
Zune Hardware's Dead: That's the Least of Microsoft's Problems PC Magazine - Lance Ulanoff - ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ The 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 ...
Microsoft looks like it's zeroing out the Zune Washington Post (blog) - Rob Pegoraro - ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ If 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 ...
Microsoft to phase out unsuccessful Zune player Reuters Canada - Bill Rigby, Gary Hill - ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ SEATTLE (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. ...
Report: Microsoft kills Zune player Seattle Times (blog) - Brier Dudley - ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ Microsoft 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 ...
Microsoft Will Reportedly Stop Making Zune Devices Huffington Post - ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ According 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, ...
	Report: The Zune is dead (Bloomberg) Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ Microsoft 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) Dead PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ Microsoft 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, ...
The Zune Is Finally Dead (AAPL, MSFT) San Francisco Chronicle - Dan Frommer - ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ After 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 ...
	Farewell, Zune. We never knew you. Canadian Reviewer - 16 Mar, 2011 Microsoft is no longer making any new Zune hardware and its focal mobile music and video entertainment devices will be the Windows Phone 7 smartphones. The Zune software will continue development to serve said mobile OS. Bloomberg's Dina Bass reports ...
RIP Zune: How Microsoft could have succeeded TG Daily - Rob Enderle - 16 Mar, 2011 It appears Microsoft is pulling the plug on Zune hardware. I actually had a lot of hope for the media player when it was first announced in 2006. But then I saw the product in brown and all I could think of was, compared to the iPod, it looked like a ...
Microsoft Discontinues the Zune, Latest in the History of Failed Products Yahoo! Tech (blog) - 16 Mar, 2011 Industry sources are reporting that Microsoft has decided to discontinue the Zune, once considered its answer to the Apple iPod. Microsoft will now concentrate on providing Zune-like functions on other platforms, such as the Phone 7 and Xbox. ...
	End Of The Line For Microsoft's Zune Online Social Media - Matt Tran - 16 Mar, 2011 As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Sadly this is the case with Microsoft's Zune, as they have announced that they will no longer be making new versions of their MP3 player. With music now being accessable via smartphones, ...
	Did Zune Really Have That Short Of A Shelf Life: Was It A Bust Daily News Pulse - Adriana Barnes - 16 Mar, 2011 Microsoft's answer to iTunes and the iPod was the Zune and the company wanted to push the idea of sharing the music you liked with your friends. If you were in the same vicinity you could send each other ...
Zune Team: Chill Out About The Zune's Death CrunchGear - Devin Coldewey - 16 Mar, 2011 Yesterday's widely-propagated reports that the Zune has died (in pure, player form at least) are being downplayed by Microsoft. In a post over at Anything But iPod, Zune Hardware business guy Dave McLauchlan had this ...
The music ends for iPod rival The Standard - 16 Mar, 2011 Apple-loathing techies - a rare but fiercely dedicated breed in Hong Kong - won't like to hear this. Microsoft will stop introducing new versions of the music and video player because of tepid demand and to allow the company to shift its focus to other ...

Release Date ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ in Bloomberg

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