In an email to Zune Music Pass subscribers Microsoft has just provided us with a short list of things that won’t be making their way into the Xbox Music service this fall.
Changes will include the lost of MixView, and all channel playlists, the ability to purchase or stream music videos through the Zune Software, downloading, re-activating or re-licensing music videos, the complete loss of the ability to download apps for the Zune HD, and our personal favorite “sending and receiving messages, inviting friends, sharing the songs, playlists, and albums you are listening to, and viewing past play history” -or as long time users would call it, murdering Zune Social.
The newsletter goes on to explain that these changes will be made effective August 31st, and that the folks in Redmond will have more to say on the things being offered by the service soon, hopefully in the list of new offerings will be a way to share the music we love with our friends in a new form.