The Microsoft VP behind the MS branded door-stop called Zune has left the building. Bryan Lee, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s entertainment unit, and lead for the Zune player has taken early retirement from Microsoft …

The Zune apparently does not share all the songs from the Zune Store. What is and isn’t shareable is up to the record company. You can read more at P2PNet.
As more information gets out, the …

TheZune player continues to struggle against strong competition from it’s own “Playsforsure” partners Creative and SansDisk, both soundly beating the Zune player in sales.
“Apple has dominated sales of MP3 players almost since it entered the …

Although Microsoft was busy being quitely confident about the first weeks sales taking 2nd place behind the ubiquitous IPod, the Zune dropped to 5th place in the second week behind the 2nd place SanDisk, …

The release of the Zune Player has been, despite the concerted PR effort, as exciting as a new flavour of Heinz beans. Unlike the chaos and excitement of the launching of the Wee Wii and …

The delivery of the Zune player to the market came and went on Tuesday. There were no long lines of bleary eyed gamesters, no mad rush, crushing crowds or excited Japanese teenagers unlike the cult …

Mega music oligopoly Universal Records pushed Microsoft into a corner today after they inked a download deal for the Zune Marketplace one week before it was due to go live.
Universal Music, a unit of …

Continuing on the topic that intrigues me is how much vertical integration is needed in consumer products to make them a great consumer product. Just like the Palm Pilot before it, the IPod is the …

As you have seen from previous posts I have been pondering why Sony failed to match the success of the iPod with it’s Walkman line of products when all of the good money was on …

Mike Elgan, who is the author of last weeks Computer world article “Opinion: Why Microsoft’s Zune scares Apple to the core” has kindly responded to my posting last week. I have taken the time to …

The jolly jokers over at Tech Digest have blogged the “Top Ten Reasons to Love Zune“. Here is my response.
1) Everyone loves and underdog – yep but Microsoft is not an underdog. An underdog …

The new Zune Player from Microsoft is to be released before Christmas.  According to Analyst Shaun Wu, the Zune is a repurposed Toshiba Gigabeat Player with some new software.

“Microsoft Zune appears underwhelming. Microsoft had hinted …

The surprise announcement that the new 30GB Video iPod to $249 has left Microsoft flat footed. They had intended to announce the Zune 30GB player at $299 later this year. This would have still been …

I think I have said before that the only thing that Zune is going to kill is Playsforsure partners. This player is no IPod Killer. Despite Microsoft’s marketing dollars the product still needs to deliver …