Not coming Zune

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This is hilarious. Microsoft have launched their own music player in an attempt to take on the mighty iPod. Their beast is called “Zune” and comes in black, white and a very nice brown (!), and its big “selling point” is that it lets you share songs with up to three friends who also have Zunes, wirelessly. However, it will only play music downloaded from Microsoft’s new Marketplace music service (not even MS’s old music store’s tunes will play on it) – so much for their “Plays for Sure” initiative!

Best of all, though, the Zune won’t work with MS’s imminent new operating system, Vista. Quoth The Register.

Zune, the new digital music player from Microsoft, is not compatible with the software giant’s new Vista operating system.
Buried in the Zune website, Microsoft admits that the player is not compatible with Vista and gives no information as to when it will introduce a patch or update enabling the player to do so.

Priceless :-)