Uh oh, people at Microsoft are like, we gotta write off billions for a POS we're responsible for...let's release a new version of Windows to make up the difference!

/Nice Zune analogy, subby! I look back fondly on the day I took an aluminum bat to mine.
//A Zune will fly a good distance if it stays in one piece after said baseball bat meeting.

Cup Check: Uh oh, people at Microsoft are like, we gotta write off billions for a POS we're responsible for...let's release a new version of Windows to make up the difference!

Because the PC market is doing so well.... I mean, Dell, HP, Intel, AMD are all through the farking roof profit-wise. Wanna buy a new Windows Phone to replace those spoiled BlackBerries?

They think they're going to make money through their online efforts (whatever it is today...Live365 or some shiat?), and maybe on the data center side. They're hawking Hyper-V hard as an almost-as-good version of VMware.

Cup Check: /Nice Zune analogy, subby! I look back fondly on the day I took an aluminum bat to mine.
//A Zune will fly a good distance if it stays in one piece after said baseball bat meeting.

Softball bat probably would have sent it farther. Just my 0.02 Flooz.

As someone who's pretty neutral on the whole thing, I give Microsoft a lot of credit for the progress they've made in the past 5-6 years. After the boatload of fail that was Vista when it was released, they're putting out pretty good products nowadays.

Nick Burns, MCP, MCSA, CCNA, Network+, however, has no idea what to do with them, and after his bosses spent so much money on the other stuff they bought because he said they had to, they're more than willing to look at other alternatives. And, then, they got seriously owned back in 2008 when that worm infected the entire farking enterprise, despite tens of thousands of dollars of third-party software......

I still love my Zune. I'm dreading the day something happens to it because I won't be able to get a new one.

I like Zunechan. Does that count?

Hopefully, this means no more of those farking horrible Bing commercials.

I also love my Zune HD. I've thrown away more Ipods than I care to remember.

Just a drop in the bucket webwise for Microsoft. Their online efforts lose a half billion dollars a quarter. If they want to find out how to make money online, maybe they should Google it.

How in the hell can Skype be worth that much money? I use it almost every day and I have no idea how they make any profit.

azazyel: I still love my Zune. I'm dreading the day something happens to it because I won't be able to get a new one.

I'm with you. I have a Zune HD 64 with my sweet Kicker dock at home and a 32 that I plug into my car. Life is going to suck when they finally die. I looked into trying to buy a few more as back ups, and had sent in an order to buy 2 of them for $500 a pop, but after a month, I got an email saying they could not fill my order.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I can't use my Zune players any more, but I know what I'm not going to do, and that's buy an iPod.

Death Eats a Cracker: azazyel: I still love my Zune. I'm dreading the day something happens to it because I won't be able to get a new one.

I'm with you. I have a Zune HD 64 with my sweet Kicker dock at home and a 32 that I plug into my car. Life is going to suck when they finally die. I looked into trying to buy a few more as back ups, and had sent in an order to buy 2 of them for $500 a pop, but after a month, I got an email saying they could not fill my order.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I can't use my Zune players any more, but I know what I'm not going to do, and that's buy an iPod.

Late, but I always have to stop in and share the Zune love. I love mine so very, very much.

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These guys do Zune repairs, at least for the moment. Didn't need anything major for mine, just needed to replace the screen glass, but I was happy.

/120 gig custom
//hugs Zuney

I don't even remember when Microsoft wasn't farking utterly lost. They're like HP only they matter.

azazyel: I still love my Zune. I'm dreading the day something happens to it because I won't be able to get a new one.

This.