Microsoft finally retires Zune sevices, which apparently still existed

Zune has been all but dead for years, but Microsoft is finally — offically — putting its online service out to pasture.

Even though Microsoft ended production of its Zune MP3 players in 2011, it maintained Zune online services until Sunday, when it killed Zune for good. Microsoft is currently selling and streaming music and video as Groove Music and Movies and TV, respectively.

Microsoft launched its first Zune-branded MP3 player in 2006, and while it was a fundamentally good product, it never managed to dethrone the iPod as the king of MP3 players. When Microsoft decided to kill Zune hardware in 2011, the MP3 player was already obsolete to the smartphone, by virtue of being one device that handled both functions. Read more...