Microsoft Urges Australian to not use Zune yet
An article by the Sydney Morning Herald has said that Microsoft is urging it’s Australian customers not to buy the Zune yet. The move comes after a retailer by the name Mwave began selling the units through their online store. The reason behind the move is because Microsoft believes that the users will not get the best possible experience if they purchase a unit designed for the US.
A Microsoft spokeswomen made the following comments regarding US Zunes in Australia:
“It’s very flattering that Australian retailers are showing this level of interest in the Zune range. However … any Zune product purchased in Australia right now wouldn’t be supported technically, which includes a local online music store, accessory support and integration with local artists.”
This is the same deal I believe for more of the world other that US seeing there are big differences between each country. Microsoft should come out and sell these machines worldwide soon. It has been 5 months and word of even the second generation machines is coming out. So hopefully it wont take too long.
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i want one. so hurry up n bring it out in aus!
my friend wants to buy one in japan, r they even there yet?
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Im quite freekin ticked. I bought a Zune in Kuwait, $250(US) and the bleeding thing wont work with any of our laptops. Sort you gear out Microsoft!
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And it’s Feb 08 and still nothing in Australia….
Thanks MS, sure makes us realise what you think of us.
I was over in the us and bought one.
Thanks to the zune/xbox link I was able to access the marketplace.
I’ve had no problem syncing the zune to my machine. My machine is a sony vaio about 3 years old running windows xp.
The fm radio works well too. Up the top it displays a strange radio name but down the bottom it has the aussie station.
Videos work well too, though I tested only mp4s that i’d converted for the psp.
Overall its damn good.
Stuff waiting, i got mine off ebay for $180 (including express international shipping)
That’s cheaper than the equlivent 8gb ipod nano i contemplated buying a few months ago.
when zune finally comes to australia (if this ever even happens in the next few years seeing as europe wont even get them until 2009) i’ll just sell mine back onto ebay and hopefully get an aussie zune origional :)