The full statement:

Hi all, this is James, the release manager of Zune that Cesar mentions below. In the spirit of transparency, I wanted to let everyone know that Cesar’s is right, I have been reading the comments – nearly 200 of them, including reading daily posts on other topics.  I want to assure you that your voice is heard.  The dev team and I are working hard; Cesar was right about that, too.
Some of the comments I read said things like “Microsoft is abandoning this generation of Zune,” but nothing could be further from the truth. We see Zune today as simply the baseline – not the endgame. That means we’re still planning on adding features to the existing platform just like MS has done with the XBOX platform (recall that Xbox Live was not part of the initial v1 launch but was added later), plus the fact that Zune has wireless which can make the potential very interesting. Stay tuned to Cesar’s blog for more on this as it develops.

[via ZuneInsider]