{"id":818,"date":"2006-07-22T01:35:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T00:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/22\/microsoft-officially-announces-zune-the-portable-music-player\/"},"modified":"2006-07-22T01:35:15","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T00:35:15","slug":"microsoft-officially-announces-zune-the-portable-music-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/22\/microsoft-officially-announces-zune-the-portable-music-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft officially announces Zune the portable music player."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has now officially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vnuemedia.com\/bb\/login\/login_subscribe.jsp?id=bZ6dlU8F%2B%2FJGndVIZublxhzRTkWtnprwTAzWbcczMCK2%2BGO4u9Y42J28ZJ%2B%2FiFt%2BY4hU%2B520U69Pvkmx%2B2QfHRwP0aZqd0L0JtZsHUY9mwKAbCbt%2FmiRriNqVf7CJA4fZUp1qkIzldnBvpd46H84XQY6XYK7CC0gK4ikFUXv%2BKKK563Vgss0Mq5JiF3bBWtnzr%2FkROyBlp63%2F7pyoac%2FPZPIjE%2Fiq7yJXf2IVnbyXCyLLo2eOa58vZQeMSX3jm6b8fAColB%2Fh86FjoOSIKiK0iSC9AbKV0bGSDRAmb2avHc%3D\">announced<\/a> for the first time ever that they are working on a new portable media device called Zune.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive first interview with Billboard, Chris Stephenson, Microsoft&#8217;s new GM of marketing for MSN Entertainment Business, says the company will later this year launch Zune, the umbrella brand for what he says is &#8220;a family of hardware and software products&#8221; targeting various digital entertainment services.<\/p>\n<p>The first implementation of this will be the portable music player and digital music service, in what is the company&#8217;s strongest effort yet to rein in Apple Computer&#8217;s iTunes\/iPod juggernaut, currently responsible for about 70% of the digital music market and 75% of the portable digital music player market.<\/p>\n<p>But can Microsoft really get into the portable digital music player market now, or is it too late for them? Also could this cause any lawsuits like the lawsuit of Creative Labs against Apple?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/07\/zune.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zuneinsider.com\/2006\/07\/allow_me_to_rei.html\">Zune Insider Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has now officially announced for the first time ever that they are working on a new portable media device called Zune. In an exclusive first interview with Billboard, Chris Stephenson, Microsoft&#8217;s new GM of marketing for MSN Entertainment Business, says the company will later this year launch Zune, the umbrella brand for what he says is &#8220;a family of<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/22\/microsoft-officially-announces-zune-the-portable-music-player\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft officially announces Zune the portable music player.&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}