http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buKaqRG2SFA

Only be a matter of time before 98% of the earth have to activate their toaster’s and buy a new one after they toasted too many sandwiches according to MS. ?. and oh the toaster only recognizes DRM protected bread, so copying the recipe for bread and baking your own isn’t even an option. ^^

hear you concerning microsoft and tabbed browsing – but to general users (like myself) and not advanced users – such harsh switch in interface is a slap in the face. even though they are not copying ff, to a noob it seems like they are – and thats enough to take away an even bigger chunk of the market.

furthermore – whereas i preferred the ie interface (not into tabbed browsing), ff now seems far more intuitive – AND WHATS UP WITH THE POSITION FOR THE REFRESH KEY??? that was the final nail…

@sodaboy
I can see where you would say they copied firebox but the truth is I’ve been using tabbed browsing in their development products for almost, if not longer, 10 years now. Visual Studio has had integrated tabs w/ web browsing enabled for a long time. This is one thing Microsoft now is admitadly guilty of; creating a technology or practice and then not making it available with everything. Just like their local live mapping service, which was available years before Google yet they didn’t push it. They have been in the top w/o compitition forever now they finally are stepping up. This is evident if you are in any of the development beta programs. They actually listen to what their consumers want now.
It will take some time to break their past mold of doing what they want but that is where Vista and Office are going to come in to help display that.
And yea, who buys music is very true. But I tell you that the moment subscription was available on the WMP’s URGE store I started at least kind of paying. Now I cant imagine going back to per song BS.
Until today I’ve just used my PPC6700 with a 2gb flash card in the urge store. Mini SD is not the quickest, but if it were and I had a larger storage I prob would stick with my phone. Oh and my iPod, just sits and collects dust along with the iShitful. No I never even used either other than the iShitful for the gym for maybe a week but iTunes is such a slow pain in the ass (especially 7, what the fuck did they do?).

How hard is that??? But no… god forbid someone sees you with some generic korean player – fuck mac and their monopoly on the teen pop culture. good on microsoft for trying to take a slice of the pie – i personally think they’ll fail – why? because no zitty little teen is going to take the leap of faith and try the zune at the fear of being rejected from their shitty little ipod circle of trust – my god i hate this shit.

and i hate microsoft for trying to copy firefox and doing an utterly crap job of it – they literally pushed me to switch to ff – well done! and all they’ll do with the zune is make more people switch to the shitty ipod because of all the hype.

oh, the irony.

will agree tho that it will be hard to judge MS products on their individual merits after the next year. too bad it costs a fortune to drink their koolaide all the way.

Also, you should only report on an item that you at least have some knowlege about, Susan Kevorkian, you dumb bitch. The project manager has been saying for at least 8 months, publicly, that the Zune will not support wireless syncing as it will be another thing for iPod fans to say is more complicated. AND Jesus, it’s like everyone has been in a whole the past year. This is supposed to be the interconnector between the 360 and Vista. If you have a 360 you’d know microsoft is not only made big deals with television stations and music but will even sell content on the damn xbox starting nov 22nd.
They plan to lock you in at so many levels that it wont be in the same market at all as the iPod. Not to mention most PC users are diehard Apple fans, and according to receint surveys, neither are Apples.
With this I will leave you with the $15/month subscription service that seems to get little or not attention…
WTF, no compitition.
I have been using the URGE store since WMP (Windows Media Player) Beta 1. I can’t believe iTunes is still in service. And ever comment and strict opinion will most likely have to be eaten later.
No one relizes that MS is way different than they were 2 years ago. Not to mention the huge software change that is coming our way (Vista & Office 2k7).
I have been testing these products all the way and they are going to change the game up a little bit. So now, when I hear some review nut talk shit it just seems retarded. For one… it is the same price, two, it has more features. You can’t even bring in music into the picture because it has subscription service. God forbid we rate it as a MP3 player and not another Microsoft product.
And a phone…. god damnit people.
Who are you going to trust, a company that leads sales with a small portable device or a multibillion dollar monopoly that crushes OS sales and not counting the Office bliss, is neck and neck with linux and unix based servers in the business world. Who is Apple? It is that company that Microsoft helped keep alive so they didn’t have to pay all those trust suits.