{"id":14373,"date":"2017-11-14T23:19:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T23:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/microsoft-introduces-zune\/"},"modified":"2017-11-14T23:19:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T23:19:27","slug":"microsoft-introduces-zune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/microsoft-introduces-zune\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Introduces Zune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/zune-30-2w9-800.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3861]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3864\" alt=\"zune-30-2w9-800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/d35a7__zune-30-2w9-800-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/d35a7__zune-30-2w9-800-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/zune-30-2w9-800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>November 14, 2006<\/p>\n<p><em>Knock-knock<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Who&#8217;s there?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Microsoft Zune.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Microsoft Zune who?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Exactly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft releases their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zune_Media_Player\" target=\"_blank\">Zune media player<\/a>, intended to compete with Apple&#8217;s iPod. Hailed by some as an &#8220;iPod-killer&#8221;, the only killing done was by <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthetech.com\/2011\/03\/15\/microsoft-zune-r-i-p\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft less than 5 years later when they ended production of the Zune brand<\/a>. Otherwise known as simply another media player to fall to the iPod behemoth, the Zune is considered a spectacular failure when taking into account the weight of the Microsoft brand at the time. The Zune&#8217;s lack of success foreshadowed of the decline of Microsoft in The New World of Technology, once Apple introduced the iPhone and iPad effectively ending the PC Era.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/11\/14\/microsoft-introduces-zune\/\">Microsoft Introduces Zune<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/11\/14\/microsoft-introduces-zune\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 14, 2006 Knock-knock Who&#8217;s there? Microsoft Zune. Microsoft Zune who? Exactly. Microsoft releases their Zune media player, intended to compete with Apple&#8217;s iPod. Hailed by some as an &#8220;iPod-killer&#8221;, the only killing done was by Microsoft less than 5 years later when they ended production of the Zune brand. Otherwise known as simply another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[381,340,3000],"class_list":["post-14373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-introduces","tag-microsoft","tag-zune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}