The blogs arebuzzingover some tweets from aTwitter accountallegedly run by the Office 2010 team , remark what looks like the unlimited proclamation of a Zune phone . Something does n’t palpate right . Updated
First , the tweets :
June 2009 will be an crucial month for Zune lovers .
Naturally , this got some other Twitterers a little excited . The followup :
New intersection launch , that ’s all I ’m allowed to say . Hold off from buying an iPhone / Pre . 🙂
Well , that ’s a pretty exculpated statement : Do n’t purchase any of these pop phone , because we ’re liberate a production soon . Wow ?
Granting that this is a Microsoft - run Twitter and that the announcement is well - inform , here ’s what it would mean : Microsoft could beoffering upa compounding of a Zune phone reference design and combination Windows Mobile / Zune software to gimmick producer , occur June . But until these errant Tweets are addressed by someone who we know can verbalize authoritatively for MS ( not some low - grade marketing minion ) , this is about as convincing as any of the other innumerable Zunephone / Pink “ reports ” we ’ve heard to date — that is to say , gently .
https://gizmodo.com/the-zune-phone-wont-be-made-by-microsoft-5148001
Mainly , it ’s the source of these rumors that bother me . The info comes from a Twitter account that take to be unite toOffice 2010 The Movie , a Microsoft advertising page advertise the next variation of MS Office . Thing is , I ca n’t regain a link to this Twitter page anywhere onoffice2010themovie.com , nor can I find mention of @officethemovie by any other notable Microsoft Twitter accounts . It is linked ! Hmm .
There ’s plenty more to be suspicious of . The Twitter account is stigma - young , and their limited tweets regarding Office have been foreign :
Office 2010 will let in Twitter , Facebook , and other social networks integrate right into Word . That ’s just a hint of what ’s to come !
Social networking in Word ? Not to mention that half of these Tweets were post through Tweetie , a Mac client .
Beyond these trivial oddities , there ’s a conceptual trouble . Why would MS allow a Zune earpiece announcement to leak through a abject - profile , disjointed Twitter account , especially when such an announcement lean straight off counter to thecompany line ?
UPDATE : This Twitter history is link to from the OfficetheMovie web site , but at best that make the Twitter account the official gumshield of a part of the selling team for a Microsoft mathematical product with little - to - no relation to the Zune project , not an infallible representative of the Zune division , much less the company as a whole . It ’ll be interesting to see how this is shell out with when Redmond come alive up . Oh here .
https://gizmodo.com/zomg-phone-rumor-update-zune-team-denies-denies-and-d-5250882
UPDATE : Dennis Liu , the Office Movie guy , write to us to clarify :
Officethemovie ” was a rogue twitter . “ Office2010movie ” is the right chirrup page .
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