Zune unlikely to appear in Europe until 2008
It looks like Europeans are going to get shafted once again. The Microsoft Zune is unlikely to appear on European shores until late 2007 or possibly even in 2008. Why the delay? Well there’s a couple of reasons according to MCVUK.com – first, nobody was assigned to head up the UK and European product launch. Tsk tsk.
There is now a head of Zune International and that person will need time to build relationships with partner vendors in the European region. Here’s an interesting quote from Dene Schonknecht, media and entertainment alliance manager at Microsoft.
“We haven’t yet selected a music store provider to build marketplace in the UK, which means we’re way off launch.”
Well that pretty much sums it up for the UK and Europe for now.
[Check it out via ZuneSphere.com]
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