NeoWin: United Airlines is planning to trial 500 Zune HD devices for in-flight entertainment on International flights.
The trial will take place on long haul international flights from the United States. Microsoft has worked hard to customize 500 devices and provide unique content for those flying with United Airlines. The software giant has held meetings with content providers and movie studios to pre-load the devices with the latest content just out of movie theatres and pre-DVD. Customers will be able to loan the devices onboard flights.
FleshEatingZipper writes: On the morning of May 11th, 2012, Robbie Bach stood before the Northwest Entrepreneur Network while a PowerPoint projection burned bright behind him. The 50-year old former Microsoft executive was graying at the corners while a “Hello, my name is…” sticker began to peel off his shirt. “If I had hindsight, 20-20, and could do Zune over again,” he started, “we would skip portable media players completely.”
WMpoweruser - Despite Microsoft blaming a publishing mishap for the Zune HD page being pulled from the Zune.net site, a post on the Zune.net support site officially confirms the device has been discontinued.
enConnected - Since man first walked out of caves, set fire to their turkeys at Thanksgiving, and shocked us with talk of winning, one question has been asked; when will the Zune HD get basic productivity apps? How about today.
