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It was weird to own a Zune in 2005. It is even weirder to own a Zune in 2021 — let alone 16 of them. And yet, 27-year-old Conner Woods proudly shows off his lineup on a kitchen table. They come ...
J Allard, a former Microsoft executive and the mind behind the Zune, is leading a new team at Amazon, CNBC reports. Allard is ...
Let's get one thing clear at the start: the Zune is a beautiful music player and the entire ecosystem trumps anything devised by a PlaysforSure licensee. But Microsoft isn't satisfied with showing ...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Microsoft's Zune HD, which went on sale Tuesday, is more than just another portable media player trying to unseat Apple's iPod. It's part of Microsoft's new cross ...
It wasn’t very easy to get my hands on a Zune. After Microsoft’s long-pitied music player won Slate’s Reader Takeover poll—in which I’d promised to reassess an overlooked technology of ...
On September 15, Microsoft and its retail partners began selling the Zune HD in the U.S. Lots of sites have hands-on reviews, photos and feature details about the players and the accompanying Zune ...
Microsoft has fixed an issue in Windows 11 affecting compatibility with the Zune MP3 player. As The Verge noticed in the latest Windows blog, Windows 11's new Insider Preview build includes an ...
The first-generation Zune media player that Microsoft Corp. released last year was a me-too product with a few nice touches. So the question with the new, second-generation Zune is whether ...
Good news for all of you remaining Zune users — all three of you. Microsoft is making a series of changes that will affect users of its legacy Zune media devices and services, including retiring ...
Despite Microsoft’s statement that it will take five years before the Zune platform is successful, we think it has a shot of getting there in less. Why? Here are five reasons. •The Zune has a ...
Microsoft's Zune team is usually good at giving its customers ample warning when it has to take the service down for maintenance or an upgrade. That's why the seemingly sudden decision to take ...
And this is exactly what Microsoft is trying to do with the introduction of the Zune, a portable audio and video player built specifically by Microsoft. Arguably meant for early adopters ...