A dismal report for Zune in Microsoft’s most recent quarterly earnings report: Zune player sales in the fourth quarter of 2008 were down 54% from the previous year.
Microsoft only did a minor player upgrade this past fall, which didn’t result in the buzz that erupted the previous year when they first released the Zune 80 [...]

This holiday shopping season may have been a good one for Zune.
Canadian shoppers made the Zune 80GB player not only the most-wished-for music player, but the most-wished-for of any kind of consumer electronics, according to this press release from Amazon.ca.
The top five items on Canadian wishlists were: J. K. Rowling’s “The Tales of Beedle the [...]