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Microsoft Teams With McDonalds For Zune Wi-Fi

September 17, 2008

Microsoft has agreed to a deal with McDonald's restaurants to provide free Wi-Fi access to Zune users...Boston (dbTechno) - Microsoft has agreed to a deal with McDonald’s restaurants to provide free Wi-Fi access to Zune users.

Microsoft agreed to the deal with the provider of network services for McDonald’s restaurants, Wayport.

As part of the deal, Zune users are going to be able to walk into any McDonald’s restaurant that supports Wi-Fi and get free online access.

This deal will last 3 years, and will allow Zune users to go onĀ  the Wi-Fi to buy music with the Buy From FM feature.

Users will be able to have full access to the Zune Marketplace in this regard over Wi-Fi.

The new Zune starts at $149.99 for the 8GB model and goes up from there.

There are nearly 10,000 McDonald’s locations that support the Wi-Fi feature.

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