Looks to me like the Softies have decided users who want a small-form-factor media player from Microsoft are going to have to use their Windows Phones. So much for that crazy rumor that Microsoft might make good on its own executives' promise and deliver one more version of its Zune HD player. "We hope you continue to enjoy the Zune video and music service across Xbox 360, Windows Phone, Zune devices and PCs, which continues to expand," the site says. (The Originals were customized Zune HDs, orderable directly from Microsoft.) According to a message on the Zune Originals site, Microsoft is sending users who still want to buy new Zune HDs to its retail partners, including Walmart and Best Buy, to do so. But over the weekend, Microsoft did announce its cessation of its Zune HD Originals line. Microsoft halts Zune HD Originals orders: Microsoft officials still have not said definitively whether Microsoft is planning to drop the Zune media player line. The results of the queries are expected by many industry watchers to be censored, given the Chinese government's controls over Web content there. There's no word on the dollar-value of the deal. But starting later this month, Bing will begin providing English-language search results to Baidu users in China. Microsoft signs another agreement with Baidu, this one for English-language search in China: Microsoft already had a deal in place with Baidu for paid-search results.
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