This is a interesting article about the bad review of Zune player by Chris from Ten23 Software .
“It’s always fun to watch when a controversial product is released. If you look on Amazon under some polemical books, you’ll notice many of the reviews are from people who have never read it but hate it [...]

… that is video and audio podcast in one. I wonder whether now these drunkards Kevin Rose and Alex Albright will be positive about Zune or not?
Anyway I think that publications should not accept ANYTHING from Microsoft to avoid being accused of bribery.
Please note: Rocketboom refused Microsoft Zune sponsorship on the grounds of losing independence.
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Consumers in the US will be able to get their hands on Microsoft’s soon to be made available Zune by Christmas 2006. The portable media player is set to rival the king of the portable music / video player market, Apple’s iPod. With the secrecy and speculation surrounding this already highly anticipated gadget, Microsoft’s latest [...]

Next week, Microsoft Corp. will launch the most serious challenge ever mounted to Apple Computer’s iPod and iTunes juggernaut in digital music. The software giant is introducing a portable player called the Zune, an online music store called Zune Marketplace and a new music software program called Zune that links the two. It plans to [...]

One of the most interesting aspects of Microsoft’s would-be iPod-killer Zune isn’t technical at all. It has nothing to do with colour screens, codecs or disk capacity.
But someone at Microsoft thinks they’ve found what may be the Achilles heel of Apple’s end-to-end music delivery system, of which the iPod is simply the best known part.
And [...]

The battle for holiday sales of mp3 players should be very interesting this year. Whatever your opinions of it the battle between Apple and Microsoft certainly qualifies as epic. Since the beginning of the digital age both have done their best to assert control of a global industry. One was able to best the other [...]

When the guys from Zune started granting interviews we wanted to do one Zune MAX style. We decided to interview each of the Microsoft Zune employees with a blog in one huge interview but that may be too much. We figure there must be more then these three great people working on the Zune but [...]

The Microsoft Zune can hold its own as a portable media player, and the sharing feature is definitely cool. But the lack of format support will estrange some seasoned users.

Earlier this year, the idea of a Microsoft-branded MP3 player was foreign to most consumers. After all, what could the software giant do to the iPod [...]

We called up J Allard today to get him to spill the rest of the Zune enchillada. Like our obsession with Steve Jobs, cousin gaming site Kotaku can’t stop thinking about Allard. Brian Ashcraft wanted us to ask him questions like, “If Microsoft was a World of Warcraft guild, what class would you be? ” [...]

Despite Microsoft’s statement that it will take five years before the Zune platform is successful, we think it has a shot of getting there in less. Why? Here are five reasons.
•The Zune has a large screen. The 3-inch screen is 50% larger than the 5G iPod’s. One of the main complaints iPod users have is [...]