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Microsoft fails with pre-roll ads for Zune applications

by Josh Holat on Sep 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM

Microsoft has opened their own version of Apple’s App Store. These “Apps,” which can be downloaded from the “Marketplace,” are all free, professionally designed and coded by Microsoft for their store, and available for their new Zune HD media device. However, free is the key word in this phrase. Microsoft… Continue Reading »

Zune death watch: Revenue down 54%

by Bill Stiteler on Jan 26, 2009 at 06:53 PM

So the Zune’s not doing so well. Shocking, I know. Macworld has a report from Microsoft stating that fourth-quarter revenue for the little music player that could (not) was down $100 million from last year, which, of course, is chump change to MS—the equivalent to what you and I would… Continue Reading »

Microsoft gets right what Apple got wrong with Genius?

by Kirk Hiner on Sep 16, 2008 at 06:00 PM

The announcement of the iTunes 8 Genius feature at Apple’s Let’s Rock event has been greeted generally favorably, even if Beatles fans can’t be told that pretty much every single band ever to follow borrowed at least some portion of their sound from them. But, did you know that Microsoft… Continue Reading »

New Zune tries to rock, too

by Aaron Kraus on Sep 8, 2008 at 10:15 PM

The Microsoft marketing staff must be getting paid per idea these days! How else can we explain the Seinfeld+Gates response to the “I’m a Mac” campaign? Or the release of details about the new Zune media players, which comes suspiciously one day before Apple’s Let’s Rock event. Analyst predictions for… Continue Reading »

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