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Microsoft is keeping mum over the European release date of its Zuneportable media player, despite reports that the software giant haspushed back the release to 2009.
The US is already on its second-generation Zune, which was released over there in November last year. However, French newspaper Les Echosthis week reported that the player will not now arrive over here untilthe third-generation players have been released. It claims Europeanswon't get their own Zune for another ten months at least.
Microsoft's second-generation Zune: as seen in the US
Last year, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted that the Zune, originally released in the US in 2006, won’t go on sale Europe until 2008.
Ballmer was merely speculating about a European launch, rumour-mongering so-and-so...US-based Zune fans can currently choose between 4GB, 8GB, 30GB and80GB incarnations of the PMP. The two smallest capacity models looksimilar to an iPod Nano, whilst the 30GB and 80GB models draw theirstyling from classic ‘fatter’ iPod designs.