Groove Music
Zune Music Pass would be rebranded in 2012 to Xbox Music, an attempt from Microsoft to make Xbox its multimedia platform. It didn’t catch on, so before releasing Windows 10, the company rebranded the service once more to Groove. By the time Groove arrived, Microsoft’s music streaming efforts had already failed. Within a few years, the company discontinued the streaming service, redirecting users to Spotify. It then shuttered the Groove Music apps on iOS and Android.
Groove music lived on for a while longer as a media player before being replaced this year by a new Windows 11 “Media Player” app, a successor to the legacy Windows Media layer.
