Europe shafted again – No ZuneHD in Europe this year
In an interview with Mobinaute, Francois Ruault, director of the division entertainment and terminals of Microsoft France made it clear the much hyped new media player from Microsoft will not be making the trip across the Atlantic any time soon.
"I’m not saying the Zune HD will never leave US, but for now, we have no intention of marketing (it here)” he said, adding it was not expected to come to Europe before the end of this year.
This does come as a blow to many who were hoping for an attractive alternative to Apple’s iPod Touch franchise, and continues Microsoft’s inexplicable ignoring of the worldwide market for their media players, in markets where they may very well have made more progress than in US, which is Apple’s strongest market.
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Another nail in the coffin.
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Finally!!!! I’m definitely not going to cry over this since they get all of the WM phones first and we are usually last! Thank Goodness Microsoft is in the US for once.
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no problem MS, if you don´t want our money, skip us. We can switch to Apple, no problem for us
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I wouldn't want to send cool products to countries who constantly fine and sue me either. They'd probably use it as a new way to fine Microsoft anyway.
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Does no one remember what the EU did to Microsoft in the '90s ?! Be surprised that Microsoft does business there at all anymore.
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sorry MSFT, thist is plain stupid.
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wreiad Reply:
September 10th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
What's stupid? They simply said it won't be coming this year, not that it won't be coming at all. It's not exactly easy to have a simultaneous worldwide launch of a product.
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Argh Reply:
September 11th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Agreed. The issue is probably getting the worldwide arrangements made with the recording labels rather than the actual hardware distribution though (after all, they have alot of experience with selling mice/keyboards etc. as well as software all over the world).
However, the lack of international support will limit their chances of success a lot.
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MikeWard1701 Reply:
September 11th, 2009 at 1:28 am
"It's not exactly easy to have a simultaneous worldwide launch of a product"
Yet Apple manage to pull it off with few problems.
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wreiad Reply:
September 11th, 2009 at 2:31 am
Again, they said it won't be coming this year, not that it won't be coming at all. It's like being upset over Apple not initially giving the iPhone a simultaneous worldwide launch. You should be more realistic rather than demand irrational perfection, and understand that things take time and money (Duh).
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France is all of Europe?
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Screw Europe lol. They screw MS over and over again about not including other browsers (TOTAL BS!) and fine MS and abuse MS and then whine when MS says SCREW YOU! I laugh. I wish MS would say, "We are no longer going to carry or allow any MS products to be used outside the US."
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yes nagrom, screw Europe, leave it all Apple land ! If there is no MS , the Apple percentage would increase more and more and one day they would overrun MS. If this is what you want…..
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LOL! Apple will NEVER overrun MS. You can quote me on that. They have been trying for decades…
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Marc is right the source is PCWorld.fr not Mobinaute, Mobinaute (and all their sister sites) NEVER link to the original stories, bunch of thiefs. (oh I see that they edited the story and added a link to PCworld'shomepage now, not directly to the story though)
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