Word on the street is that Microsoft and Nokia are cooking something up for Microsoft's Zune. But rumours that the result will be a Zune phone, appear wide of the mark.
Quoting a “well placed source within Microsoft”, the specialist pub Zunescene reveals that joint development is focused on content delivery, rather than a …
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Microsoft harpoons Nokia to fine tune Zune
Word on the street is that Microsoft and Nokia are cooking something up for Microsoft's Zune. But rumours that the result will be a Zune phone, appear wide of the mark. Quoting a “well placed source within Microsoft”, the specialist pub Zunescene reveals that joint development is focused on content delivery, rather than a …
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Posted Monday 4th August 2008 16:18 GMT
call me scruffy
Ahhhhhh #
So first Nokia buy out Symbian, poisoning it too all other phone vendors.
Than having killed the only thing that might ever have competed with WinCE, they're in bed with M$.
Mine's the coat with a psion5 in one pocket, and an iPhone in the other.
Posted Monday 4th August 2008 16:18 GMT
Jeff Fraser
Apparently Microsoft has already forgotten PlaysForSure #
Hopefully everyone else has too.
Posted Monday 4th August 2008 23:18 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Hmm #
The previous boss for Nokia, Ollila was strong and clever enough to stay out of bed with the Plague.
Now I am getting worried about Nokia.
Posted Monday 4th August 2008 23:18 GMT
KenBW2
@Jeff Fraser #
"The PlaysForSure program has been terminated and replaced by a "Certified for Windows Vista" program instead."
- Wikipedia
Posted Tuesday 5th August 2008 00:59 GMT
Henry Cobb
Buy them out #
Why bother with a loser like Yahoo? M$ should just buy out Nokia.
There won't be any antitrust concerns because M$ phones have flopped so badly that there's hardly any overlap.
Posted Tuesday 5th August 2008 08:55 GMT
Ascylto
Zune? #
Wassat?
Posted Tuesday 5th August 2008 12:25 GMT
Jay
“Designed for Zune Marketplace” or “Zune Marketplace compatible” #
Until MS decide to move the goalposts.
Meanwhile on this side of the pond, WTF is a Zune?
Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 09:03 GMT
Anonymous Coward
re: Ahhhhhh #
More to the point what's a "psion"? is that like one of those Japanese fish?
(Making sure there's no legacy h/ware in my pocket)
jk
Posted Thursday 7th August 2008 08:27 GMT
call me scruffy
@AC #
Psion will be "legacy" hardware, when something better comes along. Although, yeah, I take your point the iPhone's a bit drastic.
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