Most of the people who are in the gadget/MCE/geek community have already heard that the Zune team has been split into separate hardware and software teams. I’ve read this story on several blogs and it’s really nothing new.
When I went over to the Zune Insider Blog a bit ago, I realized that getting the Zune and Media Center integration that we want might actually be more of a possibility than I thought.
From the blog post:
Hi folks – Some of you might have read today’s report on CNET about the Zune re-organization. If you haven’t already seen it, click to hear from the new head of the Zune business, Enrique Rodriguez, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s TV business and now Zune.
If you’re pressed for time, here’s the short version:
We are combining the Zune software team with the Connected TV organization (Windows Media Center, Mediaroom) to create a single group focused on creating software and services that enable great entertainment experiences across the PC, TV, mobile phones and Zune devices.
The Zune device hardware team joined the mobile communications business group to create a center of excellence in portable hardware. This will bring people who live and breathe hardware together.
The priority now is to focus on delivering against our current product roadmaps across each team in the new organization. That means new software, services and devices for Zune customers.
The most interesting part of the post is the first bullet point. “Combining the Zune software team with Connected TV” sounds to me like it’s going to be one team with one vision. Again, from other news sites around the net, you’d think they were just going to share the same space. Seems a lot closer than that to me…
