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Microsoft once again says goodbye to Zune

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Xbox Music and Xbox Video are heading into the future of Microsoft's digital multimedia ecosystem. But it always happens like this: something new is coming, but something is becoming a thing of the past. August 16, 2013 the software giant announced the termination of purchases and rent in the service Zune Marketplace. Support will be terminated “not earlier” on August 22 of the current year. Microsoft Zune multimedia players were discontinued in October 2011.


This news about the next sign of the decline of the era of multimedia players brought resource The Verge. However, the Zune Music Pass will continue to exist. Users can download no more than ten songs per month. Thus, the Zune Marketplace will not disappear completely. Zune sync with Xbox Music is not possible.

A little later this year, Microsoft promises to implement support for the Xbox Video service on the Xbox One and Windows Phone 8. The search giant confirmed the ongoing work on the browser-based version of Xbox Video. The web version of Xbox Music appeared last July. Games in the Windows Live PC store will also cease to be sold on August 22, 2013. For Xbox One, the future of the software giant, and our readers can look into the game coming from the hardware side.

The article is based on materials https://hi-news.ru/audio/microsoft-v-ocherednoj-raz-proshhaetsya-s-zune.html.

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