{"id":1242,"date":"2007-05-28T23:38:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T22:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/28\/microsoft-has-now-sold-a-little-over-a-million-zunes\/"},"modified":"2007-05-28T23:38:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T22:38:04","slug":"microsoft-has-now-sold-a-little-over-a-million-zunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/28\/microsoft-has-now-sold-a-little-over-a-million-zunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft has now sold a little over a million Zunes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are no official figures yet, but it has been\u00a0revealed in an interesting interview with Robbie Bach<\/a>, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division, that they have sold a little over a million Zunes, which is pretty cool considering\u00a0it’s not even the end of June, which\u00a0Microsoft had set as their original target for selling a million players.<\/p>\n

Question:<\/strong> Can you talk a little bit about the Zune overall? Will we see next-generation Zunes coming out, particularly flash-based players?<\/p>\n

Bach:<\/strong> We’re still about nine months into having Zune in the marketplace. We’re very pleased with the progress. We’ve sold a little over a million Zunes. In the category we’re in, the hard-disk-based category, we’ve got about 10 percent market share. It’s a good start. It’s not an overwhelming start. I’m not going to pretend it’s some gigantic move.<\/p>\n

As we look to the future, you’re certainly going to see us continue to invest in that category. We don’t enter things like that lightly.<\/p>\n

There will be new things down the path (in the fall). We just came out with a special edition pink Zune and a watermelon-colored Zune, which are the personal favorites with my kids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are no official figures yet, but it has been\u00a0revealed in an interesting interview with Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division, that they have sold a little over a million Zunes, which is pretty cool considering\u00a0it’s not even the end of June, which\u00a0Microsoft had set as their original target for selling a million players. Question: Can you<\/p>\n

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