Anything But iPod are reporting that Francois Ruault, a Director in Microsoft France has stated that the Zune will be released in Autumn 2009, to capitalise on the 2009 Christmas season. You can see the full report in French here.

This European release will be for a new 3rd generation version of the device – although we don’t have any details yet of what might be new on this device. There will also be a new European version of the Zune Marketplace. This should bring the music rental model to Zune users in Europe (in US, you can pay $14.99/month and download as many songs as you want and these will play on the Zune. Of course once you stop paying the music ‘deactivates’).

If you don’t want to wait so long for your Zune, then ZuneThings can supply all current models and Zune Accessories to Europe right now!

Zune Europe in Autumn 2009 is a post from: ZuneThings News