February 17, 2012 By Video X Ware's Tech News
From: liveside.net

Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft, revealed in his blog post the first official screenshots from Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which gave us a glimpse of the new Office 15 suite and "Windows Communication" apps (essentially Metro-styled Windows Live apps). Furthermore, contents from the Windows Store are also revealed, showing what will be available in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Of particular note is the existence of the Zune brand within the store, see image below:

Reports around the internet seems to suggest that the Zune client isn't dead yet, given the existence of the "Zune Musicand" "Zune Video" apps, as shown above. However, we tend to think that these two apps merely provide access to the Zune marketplace, much like their counterpart apps in the new Xbox 360 dashboard. As far as the Zune client is concerned, we think it is dead, and media playback will be handled by the Metro-styled "Music" and "Video" apps – potentially a replacement of Windows Media Player.