Microsoft Zune Passes the Million Unit Mark

Microsoft “v. pleased” with brown MP3 player sales (and brown flight suit) – Computerworld Blogs:   Microsoft has beaten its goal of shipping over a million Zune digital music players by June, capturing a 10 percent market share in the hard-disk-based music player category, said Robbie Bach, the president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division.

    ”It’s a good start. It’s not an overwhelming start. I’m not going to pretend it’s some gigantic move,” said Bach.   It took the iPod 14 months to reach 600,000 shipments, but it was much earlier in the game than the Zune, when the market for digital music players wasn’t so hot. Apple has likely sold around 25 million iPods over the same time it has taken the Zune to reach its goal, according to financial analysts.   Those numbers include the much less expensive low end iPod shuffles and the somewhat less expensive flash memroy models.  Still M$ is no Apple and Apple is winning this battle and this war.  We see where things go though.