On the street the Zune
Microsoft Zune has been released, which the company intends to use as an opponent of the iPod.
Microsoft nearly a month and a half ago has officially presented its first multimedia player — manufactured by Toshiba — with which it wants to cut itself a nice slice of the pie that constitutes more than 70% of the American share of the iPod. The 30GB player, priced at US$249, the same as Apple's similar product, also includes FM radio and Wi-Fi, which lets two Zune swap songs. You can listen to them a maximum of three times within three days, and then buy them in the company's music store, the Zune Marketplace. At Microsoft, in addition to all this, you can also subscribe to a "buffet" system, in which case you can download as much music as you want — for $15 a month. Of course, we can only listen to them as long as we pay the monthly fee.
A can be found online different from tests it turns out that Zune is clearly promising, although the start is not smooth. Several people also reported problems with the included software, creatively named "Zune" — which, by the way, is currently incompatible with Vista — and offers to upgrade the Zune system to 1.1 at first launch, as this is the only part of the code needed to share music. The device cannot be operated as a portable hard drive either.
