Our buddies at on10 had a chance to sit down with Robbie Bach at CES. Robbie talks at length about the vision for connected entertainment, and the overarching strategy for the Entertainment and Devices Division (of which Zune is a part). (zune gets a mention at 10:26 mark; but I'd watch the whole video).

A lot of folks asked me over the weekend about this article in the S.F. Chronicle . Robbie was actually misquoted - you can find an actual recording of the interview here . So for the record, we haven't made any official announcements on our sales numbers. We are on track, though, to sell one million devices before the end of the fiscal year (June 30). In addition, we've achieved our goal of being the number 2 player in the hard-drive category. And speaking of the Zune community, our friends at the...

Robbie Bach, the guy who runs the division that Zune is in, gave a presentation yesterday to all of Microsoft's financial analysts (Robbie is the president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, and reports directly to Steve). I posted yesterday about Steve Ballmer's take on Zune, and now here's Robbie's. Finally, one of the things that we just announced last week is a move into the music and video space in portable entertainment, something we call Zune. I want to spend a few moments here talking...