Woodstock at E3? Why a new Microsoft music service might just make sense

In an exclusive report from The Verge today, Tom Warren has revealed that Microsoft may be planning to unveil a new music service at E3, according to his sources.  The new service, code named ... Read more »

Windows Phone apps back out of Zune software, and will soon require Mango

Microsoft announced two changes for Windows Phone owners today, ones that “most of you likely won’t even notice” according to a blog post on the Windows Phone blog.  The first removes the ability to ... Read more »

Microsoft planning a “new” music service? Well of course they are.

In an “exclusive”, CNet’s Greg Sandoval is reporting that CNet has learned that “Microsoft is in talks with some of the major record companies about creating a new music service”.  Sandoval reports that the ... Read more »

So what is happening with Zune and Windows 8 Consumer Preview?

This morning Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft, revealed in his blog post the first official screenshots from Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which gave us a glimpse of ... Read more »

Nokia vs. Bing Maps, Zune: the U.S. problem

Nokia is set to make a big splash here in the US, with a big presence at CES in Las Vegas in January, and a US launch expected soon after (if not right from ... Read more »

Xbox.com makeover “in the coming days”: Social, Beacons, Video…and music (!)

A blog post on the Xbox.com Forums today announced a “significant update” to Xbox.com, which will do away with the “My Xbox” section and replace it with a new “Social” section, and new sections ... Read more »

The end of the Zune player era, redux

Finally.  We don’t even want to go through the whole story again, it’s too embarrassing, but after a number of miscues, the Zune player has been (we hope) finally put to rest.  The notice ... Read more »

Zune now not dead, situation officially bizarre

What is wrong with these people?  Yesterday, after a comedy of errors and false starts, a Zune.net notice went up announcing that “we will no longer be producing Zune players”.  Finally, we thought (and ... Read more »

Zune Player: Still dead

Obviously this should come as no surprise to Microsoft watchers, but the Zune  players were finally laid to rest today in a notice on Zune.net: We recently announced that, going forward, Windows Phone will ... Read more »

Microsoft’s deals with Nokia and Skype: are we waiting for Godot?

Our friend Long Zheng spotted news of an upcoming Nokia Maps app for Windows Phone, apparently coming to (at least) Nokia Windows Phones when they begin to show up sometime shortly after Nokia World ... Read more »