10/10/2011, Last week we’ve had a lot of contradicting reports about the Zune player being killed off – first it was silently announced on the Zune website, then the announcement was removed and @ZuneSupport tweeted that it could have been an [...]
10/03/2011, We’ve previously written about rumors concerning the Zune’s demise, and then reported about Microsoft refuting such stories. Well now we’ve come to tell you that the Zune is officially dead. Announced on the official Zune support website, Microsoft has stated [...]
08/03/2011, For those of you who haven’t thrown out or replaced your Zune HD player yet, we’ve got some great news for you. The Zune’s not dead – to Microsoft at least. A whole bunch of new apps have popped up [...]
07/06/2011, Wait a minute here, let me check my calendar. Are we in 2011? Yes we are, so why the heck is there a firmware update released for the Zune HD from Microsoft? All right, all five of you Zune HD [...]
06/23/2011, While it’s been awhile since we’ve heard anything about the Zune HD that was rumored to have been killed, it looks like developers are still creating apps for Microsoft’s answer to the iPod Touch. Matchbox Mobile, custom software and app [...]
05/04/2011, Microsoft’s foray into the portable media player market proved to be a rather sad one, as their Zune device, while decent in terms of hardware as well as software, simply did not work in the eyes of the mass consumer. [...]
04/03/2011, Don’t you think that this piece of news is a little bit too late? The Zune player which we reported as dead (with a follow up after that), will be receiving its email application – at least for the Zune [...]
03/15/2011, Yesterday we wrote about a report stating the death of the Zune music player. Turns out it was just a rumor, and Zune is here to stay. According to an announcement from Dave McLauchlan, head of business development for the [...]
03/14/2011, Bad 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. Not surprising, considering [...]
09/30/2010, ZuneHD owners, listen up! It seems that Windows Live Messenger for the ZuneHD is now available, albeit for selected users only. This software is a full-featured version, so you don’t have to worry about getting something gimped while lacking any [...]
09/13/2010, It was previously reported that Microsoft was looking to hire someone to work on a next-generation Zune release, and now Mary J. Foley of ZDNet has received an insider tip saying that the next-generation Zune will be more than just [...]
09/12/2010, While it wasn’t explicitly mentioned, a Microsoft job listing searching for a Senior Mechanical Engineer has sparked speculation that the company could be looking to create a successor to the Zune HD. The position will be under the phone division, [...]
09/01/2010, Mary-Jo Foley of ZDNet says that Microsoft could be working on a new Zune HD model, which isn’t really that good timing considering the new iPod touch has just been announced earlier this morning. If it were to debut sometime [...]
05/04/2010, While there aren’t any official details at the moment it seems that Microsoft is busy working on a project that could bring the core of its desktop OS to smartphones. If that does happen, we’ll see the Windows NT core [...]