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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by contextfree on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @12:28PM (#1839284)
They didn't kill the Zune. WP7 is basically a superset of Zune - same service for music/video, same client software, (evolution/derivative of the) same UI. There're rumored to be phoneless WP7s in the works too.
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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by Tyrannosaurs on Thursday October 28, 2010 @06:00AM (#1842354)
Fair enough, kill was probably the wrong word but they seemed to lose interest in the Zune as it's own entity.

But it was actually a pretty good and if they'd stuck at it I get the impression it could have done better than it did. Perhaps it will revive with WP7 (though I see the software is still under development which is good).

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