We’ve all heard about the idea of a Touch Zune, and the slashes its had with if it is or isn’t coming out. President of the Entertainments and Devices Division at Microsoft, Robbie Bach, gave us a little insight to what is going on around Microsoft. Pinch of salt with this one guys. (Link to webpage)

“One student, Marian Abdullahi of Kent-Meridian High School, asked, "I was wondering if you plan on making a touch-screen Zune?"

Bach: "Ah, a question about whether we’re going to make a touch-screen Zune. I won’t talk about future product things that we’re doing explicitly, cause that will get me in trouble with a lot of people.

"I will say that some of the some of the things I showed today around touch and vocie and cameras and those types of things, you will start to see that in a lot of places, not just in my division but across all of Microsoft.

"So, independent of specific plans for any specific product, you should just assume over time that that’s going to become part of the products that we produce. And, you know, specific timing and all those things, I’ll leave aside, but it is a huge trend. And once you have something like touch or voice to interact with, you wonder why you did it the old way. So I think that’s going to be a very powerful trend." “

This is of course after the news of the Zune Team getting split up (Posted here) and news that there will be a new product within this year. Start getting your hopes up!