20 Dec 08 Microsoft to Hire People to Expand Zune

We have no idea what Microsoft is doing with its Zune universe. Is the Zune Phone ready? Are there more MP3 Players in the works? What we do have is a rumor saying that some of the Zune UI team have moved to the Windows Mobile team and others are being hired to complete the ranks. A job posting from December 2nd says:

Zune Services is building an entertainment store for a wide range of Zune clients or ‘tuners.’ Today these tuners include the Windows PC client, the Zune web site and the Zune device; in the future there will be more. Each of these tuners access a set of rich web services implemented by Zune and soon by Musiwave as well.

What’s a Musiwave you ask? Well Musiwave is a French mobile music store which Microsoft bought last year. Is Zune thinking about 3rd party content? Is Musiwave going to be involved in that? Here’s what the job add sais:

The Zune organization is making a strategic change from a 3rd party content provider to in-house. We need to rebuild, re-architect, and revitalize a content ingestion pipeline that powers the entire Zune business. And we have a very short time to do it.

We’re waiting for Steve Ballmer to do his thing now.

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Tags: microsoft, MP3 Player, Musiwave, zune