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Zune Marketplace was an online store that offered music, podcasts, TV shows, movies, music videos, and mobile applications. Content could be viewed or purchased on Windows PCs with the Zune software installed, Zune devices, the Xbox 360, Windows Phone phones, or the Microsoft Kin phones. [9] Zune Music Marketplace has since been superseded by ...
Zune music and devices were follow-on to Microsoft's MSN Music service. MSN Music was created in 2004 to compete with Apple's iTunes services and used the Microsoft PlaysForSure DRM protocol. After only two years, Microsoft announced the closing of MSN Music in 2006 [5] immediately before announcing the Zune service without PlaysForSure support ...
Microsoft had previously ventured into music services with its Zune brand. The Zune Marketplace included 11 million tracks. The line of Zune players and Zune music store were somewhat unsuccessful, and the brand was largely discontinued at the beginning of the 2010s, although it continued to exist on different devices and the Zune Music Pass offered unlimited access to songs for US$9.99 per month.
Microsoft (MSFT) launched the Zune multimedia player in November, 2006. It was to be the company's Apple (AAPL) iPod-killer. Last year, research firm NPD said Zune market share was a paltry 2% ...
The Zune PC Software can be used for adding apps to the Zune HD. [15] The Windows Live Messenger app for the Zune HD was released on October 1, 2010, making Messenger available for all major mobile platforms. The email app was released for the Zune HD in April 2011 allowing users to sync with their email accounts and download folders and emails.
Like a kid discovering the joys of honey mustard as a condiment, it seems as if Microsoft is dipping everything it eats in the Xbox name these days. The Zune Music Pass is now marketed as the Xbox ...
The Zune 30 is a portable media player developed by Microsoft, and the first hardware device in Microsoft's Zune brand. It was released on November 14, 2006, simply named the Zune . After subsequent versions with different hard drive capacities, the original Zune was renamed Zune 30.
Microsoft Zune was doomed from the get-go. Launched five years after Apple's iPod, ... Apple's iconic music player is still the market leader with over 70% share domestically, but units are ...