Microsoft Is Said to Stop Releasing New Models of the Zune

Release Date ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ in Bloomberg

Could Windows Phone 7 eventually go the way of the Zune? Computerworld (blog) - 16 Mar, 2011 That Microsoft is apparently killing the Zune should surprise no one. But could what happened to that ill-fated music player be a template for the eventual fate of Windows Phone 7? Microsoft released the Zune back in 2006, in an attempt to take on the ...
Microsoft products we hardly knew (images) CNET - 16 Mar, 2011 Reports have it that Microsoft is killing off its would-be iPod killer, the Zune digital music and video player. Microsoft declined to confirm the reports, though plenty are speculating that the company will keep the Zune brand and continue to produce ...
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 - ‎Mar 15, 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 - ‎Mar 15, 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 - ‎Mar 15, 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 - ‎Mar 15, 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 ...
RIP Microsoft Zune - the big M's music player bites the dust Stuff Middle East - 16 Mar, 2011 After five years, the great white hope of PMPs gives up on chasing Apple's iPod. The Zune is dead, long live Windows Phone 7. That, according toBloomberg, is the crux of Microsoft's current thinking on its Zune music players. The PMPs were introduced ...
	Where did Microsoft's Zune go wrong? Product Reviews - Alan Ng - 16 Mar, 2011 If you currently own a Microsoft Zune or Zune HD player, you're likely to be pretty disappointed over reports on the internet suggesting that Microsoft has decided to kill off future new Zune hardware in favor of focusing on the Zune software side of ...
Microsoft Zune gets the chop T3 - Joe Minihane - 16 Mar, 2011 Microsoft is killing off its Zune MP3 player, five years after it was first released in an attempt to stymy the dominance of Apple's iPod. The news comes from a Bloomberg report, which says it garnered the info, “…from a person familiar with the ...
Zeros and ones: Bid adieu to the Zune ... probably Montana Kaimin - 16 Mar, 2011 Zealous Zune owners may finally have to concede MP3 player dominance to the iPod. The Web is rampant with reports that Microsoft will stop development hardware for the Zune, the MP3 player that's gotten used to silver medals since 2006. ...
	Microsoft Confirms That Zune HD Isn't Quite Dead Yet Hot Hardware - Ray Willington - 16 Mar, 2011 So, wait. The Zune HD isn't dead? Hmm. After hearing that Microsoft was transitioning away from the Zune HD hardware and focusing more on software, it seemed easy to assume that the Zune as a standalone hardware icon was dead. ...

Release Date ‎Mar 14, 2011‎ in Bloomberg

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