Zune music & video services to be available outside the US

Korneel De Feyter on February 16th 2010, 16:19


It was only recently that the Zune PC Software became available in German and Italian, although the Software wasn’t promoted on the German, nor on the Italian version of Zune.net. This was a strange fact, so it looked like there was something else, something we didn’t know about back then…

Mary-Jo Foley — a Microsoft expert at ZDnet — interviewed Casey McGee, Microsoft Senior Marketing Manager, about the new Windows Phone 7 Series and asked him if Microsoft would make the Zune music/video service available outside the U.S. His answer was clear:

It will be available in all countries where Windows 7 Phones will ship.

Microsoft is not yet disclosing that list adds Foley.
My guess? It will include all these countries.

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Zune opens European Websites & adds new UI languages

Korneel De Feyter on January 28th 2010, 17:33


Along with the 4.2 update Microsoft opened some European websites about the Zune-branded video service – who’s available in many European countries – on the Xbox 360. Interesting is the fact that Microsoft has added support for both German and Italian to the Zune Software, but neither the German nor the Italian Zune website makes notice of the existence of our beloved media managing software. As noted by My Microsoft Life this could maybe mean an international release of the Zune Software in some countries. This would make it possible for European Xbox-users to view their rented or purchased films on their PC.

This are the newly added locations:
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