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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
I just read this re-review of the Zune from Paul Thurrott. I have mixed feelings about Paul, a long time ago I followed his coverage of Microsoft products religiously but like all people that get educated my religious fervor wore off. He says a few things that out-right surprise me for someone that is supposedly familiar with Microsoft, here are the choice bits: Many--myself included--have criticized or even decried Microsoft's entry into this market, the underwhelming marketing of the device, and the lack of certain features. Eh? Unless someone has swallowed the blue pill they should have been wondering why
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
I just read a ridiculous article about the Zune on MSNBC via The Financial Times. Seriously, who writes these things? Has fact checking just gone completely out the window? My favorite quote: The launch has also been beset by problems with the machines – from limitations on sharing music with other Zune owners wirelessly, to the incompatibility with other online music systems. First, there are no "problems with the machine", both items are by design. While some people may dislike the 3-day/play sharing limitation it is a feature that doesn't even exist on the iPod plus if anyone actually thought
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Friday, December 01, 2006
The Zune has a great feature where you can sync music from a PC to your Zune and then copy that music from the Zune to a different PC. Some people seem to think you can't copy music off the Zune to a different machine, which is wrong. Of course with the good comes the bad. When you copy a song off the Zune it uses the Rip Music settings to create the folder and filename. This wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so broken. Here are some bugs related to this particular feature. 1. You can't specify the folder