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 »

Hey! News from Zune!! Music Pass coming to Canada, US changes

From Zune Insider comes some actual news about Zune, and “Zune Music” specifically: We are excited to announce that Zune Music Marketplace and Zune Music Pass will roll out in Canada on October 3rd ... Read more »

Zune Pass changes coming… to European customers

A number of reports surfaced today about a set of upcoming changes to Zune Pass, set to take place on September 13th.  The changes have to do with the number of devices you can ... Read more »

Zune software update: 4.8 is ready for Mango

Although Windows Phone developers and others running pre release versions of Mango have had it for a while, Microsoft today made version 4.8 of the Zune Software available for download.  You can “Check for ... Read more »