Microsoft has confirm the existence of Zune MP3 player on thurdays according betanews news. we able to view the initial player publicly beginning as early as the last week in August and with demonstrations of Zune MP3 player second week of September. meanwhile, Microsoft Chris Stephenson said “Under the Zune brand, we will deliver a family of hardware and software products, the first of which will be available this year,”

Beside that, Microsoft will supported by MSN Music Store and Urge, an online music store in partnership with MTV. This mean have great opportunity to allow consumers to explore and discover music together.

Microsoft Zune Prototype picture (Update 2006-8-19)

I found a photo of Zune Prototype, The Zune prototype is black and white (grayscale). From the picture you see, The Zune MP3 player is much larger than IPOD

My Note

This time IPOD will really face a real competitor ( Microsoft Zune ). Just hope that the competition between them can drop down the prices. With competition, This will more benefit toward us.