Microsoft has announced (non-Javascript version) (emphasis in original) that
As of November 15, 2015, Zune services will be retired. You will no longer be able to stream or download content to your device from the Zune music service. However, Zune devices will still function as music players and any MP3 content that you own on the Zune device will remain there. You'll also be able to transfer music to and from your Zune player.
Note Content that was purchased with DRM may not play if the license can't be renewed.
Existing Zune Music Pass subscriptions will be converted to Groove Music Pass subscriptions.
Analysis:
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @02:34PM
And then when the Cloudpocalypse arrives, I'll sit back with my books on un-DRM'd paper, and my music on un-DRM'd vinyl / CD / mp3 / m4a, and laugh. Or, as happened last Friday night, I won't give a damn because I'm out doing something that doesn't involve "the cloud" at all. I don't really think there's going to be a "cloudpocalypse", but we'll see more and more of these little hitches caused by equipment failures, misconfigured systems, and incompetently executed datacenter buildouts (hell, Microsoft once triggered an outage on Outlook / Hotmail / Skydrive via a firmware update to an air conditioner [wired.com]; how's that for irony?)
Anyway, we've already had a couple of huge Amazon outages in the past month and a half, particularly the one in September covered by The Register, complete with a picture of demonically laughing Jeff Bezos [theregister.co.uk], as well as the one last week journaled by DatacenterDynamics [datacenterdynamics.com].
Systems Watch had a nice after last week's outage: [systemswatch.com]