Archive for July, 2009

Zune HD and Windows Mobile to be presented to the public in San Francisco on August 4th (MS Mobiles)

Friday 31 July 2009 @ 11:44 pm

August 01, 2009 [General] | By Edward J. R. gdgt launch party and meetup in SF on August 4th! San Francisco! You ready to show off your have list and geek out on gadgets for an evening with team gdgt, Veronica Belmont, and 18 companies showing the freshest gear?

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Quick hands-on with the Zune HD (CNET)

Friday 31 July 2009 @ 8:54 pm

Microsoft's next version of its MP3 player might be a contender.

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Robbie Bach from Microsoft admits on video that he does not know of iTunes (MS Mobiles)

Friday 31 July 2009 @ 6:59 pm

August 01, 2009 [General] | By Edward J. R. Robbie Bach is a boss of Entertainment and Devices Division of Microsoft that encompasses Zune, Xbox and Windows Mobile.

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CNET News Daily Podcast: Microsoft on Zune, Windows 7 upgrade pricing (CNET)

Friday 31 July 2009 @ 3:45 pm

Microsoft talks up its vision for its Zune brand, and announced Windows 7 family pack pricing.

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Microsoft’s Bach on Zune, Natal, and Windows Mobile (CNET)

Friday 31 July 2009 @ 7:09 am

The head of the software giant's entertainment unit talks about key efforts in the consumer arena, including getting that movie you bought to play on multiple gadgets.

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Microsoft kills Zune phone talk (The Register)

Thursday 30 July 2009 @ 6:52 pm

Concedes Windows Mobile 'uncool' FAM Microsoft has killed any lingering hopes, fears, dreams, suspicions, or conspiracy theories involving a Zune challenge to Apple's iPhone.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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Perhaps You Could Bundle It With Windows? (AllThingsD Online via Yahoo! Finance)

Thursday 30 July 2009 @ 6:15 pm

"For something we pulled together in six months, we are very pleased with the satisfaction we got. The satisfaction for the device was superhigh." Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said that of the Zune in October 2007.

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News: Analyst: Microsoft Should Dump Zune (The Mac Observer)

Thursday 30 July 2009 @ 2:24 pm

The Zune accounted for part of 43 percent decline in Microsoft's non-gaming entertainment device sales during the company's fourth fiscal quarter, causing some analysts to question whether or not it's worth spending the time to continue developing the media player.

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Zune sales crash, Microsoft urged to quit (MacNN)

Thursday 30 July 2009 @ 12:53 pm

Microsoft’s struggling Zune media players may have been single-handedly responsible for a plunge in revenue at the Entertainment and Devices group and could be a sign of much deeper trouble for the line as a whole, analysts said Thursday. Although only a small part of Microsoft’s poor spring quarter, revenues the group that handles both the Xbox 360 and Zune dropped by 42 percent year-over-year …

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Microsoft Takes Another Crack At Retail (InformationWeek)

Thursday 30 July 2009 @ 10:20 am

The software giant's stores are expected to sell laptops, mobile devices, software, Zune media players, and the Xbox 360 gaming console.

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