On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:13:46 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> ____/ Sermo Malifer on Sunday 09 August 2009 21:32 : \____
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>> On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 20:49 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Will the Zune ever arrive in the UK, or will Microsoft kill it first?
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>>> | Zune sales are badly down in the US, and nothing suggests it's going
>>> to | improve any time soon. What's Microsoft trying to prove with it?
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>>> | [...]
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>>> | So do you expect to see the Zune land in the UK before it's taken
>>> out the | back of the Microsoft campus and shot, along with the Spot
>>> data | wristwatch, the Smart Display and those other "good ideas" that
>>> weren't? `----
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/aug/05/zune-death-likely-
ipod-share
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>>> Recent:
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>>> What's to become of Microsoft's answer to the iPod?
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>>> | To be sure, the Zune provides a tiny, and apparently deteriorating
>>> portion | of Microsoft's business. Revenue for the non-gaming side of
>>> Microsoft's | Entertainment and Devices unit, which includes the Zune,
>>> tumbled 42 | percent to roughly $211 million for the fourth fiscal
>>> quarter ended in | June â or about 2 percent of the software giant's
>>> total, according to | regulatory filings.
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>>> http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_12940980?nclick_check=1
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>>> Zune service and Xbox Live offline Tuesday
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> http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/06/zune-service-offline-
tuesday-to-work-on-xbox-features.ars
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>> I hate to do it, but I've got to plonk you Roy. You do post some
>> interesting stuff, but you flood the group without giving any
>> opportunity for answer or debate about the things you post. This is
>> supposed to be a discussion group, not the Roy Schestowitz mailing
>> list!
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> It shows how the company which has been suing Linux (TomTom, Melco,
> probably SCO) is falling into oblivion.
What your specific post was supposed to be about is besides the point.
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