{"id":2713,"date":"2008-10-02T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/2008\/10\/02\/microsoft-to-bring-zune-player-to-windows-mobile\/"},"modified":"2008-10-02T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T22:34:00","slug":"microsoft-to-bring-zune-player-to-windows-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to Bring Zune Player to Windows Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Some on the Web are billing a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.co.uk\/concern\/infrastructurerefresh\/news\/index.cfm?articleid=3208&amp;pagtype=allchantopdate\">quote<\/a> from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer concerning porting Zune software to future Windows Mobile devices as a grand revelation \u2013 but <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/windows_mobile_7_brief.htm#media\">it\u2019s been known<\/a> since early January that Microsoft was planning (at the very least) to bring a Zune-type media player to <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/windows_mobile_7_brief.htm\">Windows Mobile 7<\/a>, the next version of the company\u2019s mobile platform.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/media-ss.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"media_ss\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">As you can see from this screenshot, Windows Mobile 7\u2019s media player has a Zune icon, presumably to connect to the Zune store to purchase and download tracks.\u00a0 The screenshot was part of a package of captures released on a Microsoft-related blog in January.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It is unclear how much Zune will shape future version of Windows Mobile; its entire interface could be changed to reflect Zune, or a Zune-inspired player could simply replace the current Windows Media Player Mobile.\u00a0 I would welcome each of these changes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Given the evolution of the Zune software (the Zune players\u2019 UI and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zune.net\/en-us\/products\/zunesoftware\/default.htm\">Windows Zune application<\/a>) over the past year, adding it to Windows Mobile it would certainly prove a great improvement over the miserable Windows Media Player Mobile, which remains largely unchanged for years and is about as limited as mobile media software can be.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I don\u2019t expect a Zune-phone, but there will be a greater marriage\u00a0 of Zune and Windows Mobile in the future.\u00a0 Exciting stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some on the Web are billing a recent quote from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer concerning porting Zune software to future Windows Mobile devices as a grand revelation \u2013 but it\u2019s been known since early January that Microsoft was planning (at the very least) to bring a Zune-type media player to Windows Mobile 7, the next [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=2713\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}