Title: Microsoft Zune? Post by: spacey on November 14, 2006, 09:43:01 PM In the market for a new MP3 player to replace my Creative Zen Touch. (Nothing wrong with it, just old.) Anyone heard anything about the new offering from Micro$oft? I think I read somewhere that it was a Toshiba Gigabeat in disguise, but it apparently plays AAC files and WMA files, which is sort of tempting. Nearly all of my music files are WMA format and the idea of converting 14,000 files is just simply too daunting, so WMA compatibility is a must, but being able to share music with my iPod owning friends might be nice.
Thoughts? Title: Re: Microsoft Zune? Post by: Uisce Beatha on November 15, 2006, 04:33:43 AM Some thoughts...
http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2227 http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2237 http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004910.php I'm obviously coming from a pretty strong "just say no" position when it comes to Microsoft but if I try to be objective I might say... Positives
Negatives
Zune might turn out to be an extremely viable product. But I wouldn't be a v1.0 adopter. Title: Re: Microsoft Zune? Post by: Uisce Beatha on November 15, 2006, 04:39:00 AM Then again, perhaps this in itself is enough to turn you off...
Quote Ballmer "I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's [an] experience," he said. Title: Re: Microsoft Zune? Post by: spacey on November 15, 2006, 09:04:13 AM Thanks Uisce, that's pretty much what I was looking for. Leaning Creative Zen Vision: M at this point, but I hate to limit myself to simply Creative, if there are other good options out there.
Title: Re: Microsoft Zune? Post by: Aske on November 15, 2006, 06:02:18 PM http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=104
not even compatible with Vista !! ROTF but seriously, i'm sure version 3.2 or so will be a great product, DRM'ing aside. that said, its a microsoft problem, so I bet it will be totally hax0rable and moddable. 8) |