Microsoft's $1 Billion Failure
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 Published On Mar 14, 2020

Microsoft could have been Apple... Snazzy Labs talks about the Microsoft Zune and why an excellent product ultimately failed—and failed spectacularly.
Flashback podcast episode about Zune - http://relay.fm/flashback/2
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Flashback Episode 3: the GM EV1 Electric Car - http://relay.fm/flashback/3
Flashback Episode 2: the Microsoft Zune - http://relay.fm/flashback/2
Flashback Episode 1: the Apple Newton - http://relay.fm/flashback/1

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Microsoft in the mid-2000s just couldn't get things right. While Xbox 360 was doing well, Windows Vista was a spectacular disaster and the launch of the iPhone and Google Android ultimately pushed Microsoft and the Windows Phone operating system out of the market. But a few years before that there was Zune: a portable MP3 player brave enough to take on the iPod. Did it work? Clearly not... Why, however, was Microsoft's music player such a failure and why did it cost them over a billion dollars in losses?

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