Many year ago I heard about a rival music distribution system to iTunes and I didn’t need much convincing that this could be a better way to buy and listen to music on my PC. I did research into Zune and immediately loved the look of the brand and its logo (not so much the [...]
There have been rumours about the Zune HD 2 seemingly ever since the first Zune HD was released but over the past few months these rumours have centred around any future Zune HD running on the Windows Phone 7 OS. It certainly makes for an interesting idea but not one without major issues. We all [...]
About this time of year last year Microsoft announced the Zune HD and new Zune software for the PC and I would expect the company to announce improvements to their Zune service sometime soon. In this article I am going to share with you some of the ideas I have as to what we might [...]
Over the past several months I have been following @lituus on Twitter who occasionally offers rumours and information about future Microsoft products, as far as I can tell he has always been right. Today when checking Twitter a noticed a collection of tweets from him about what Microsoft are planning to do with both KIN [...]
Zunited posted yesterday an article about a recent post by James Gunn, a movie director, who had been invited to “The Microsoft Experience” which is a showcase event for people in the media of Microsoft’s latest and greatest gadgets. From the sounds of it all the demos at this event were of unreleased products and [...]
A few weeks back I told you I was working on a Metro dedicated site that will hopefully keep you up to date on the latest Metro UI news and will have information about the latest Metro inspired apps and themes, well today the site is now live. Metro UI, for those of you who [...]
With Microsoft expected to announce its Project Pink endeavour tomorrow I thought I would share with you what I think about the reasoning why Microsoft are pursuing this idea and what information is out there already about the products. The Information The information that has leaked out about the project indicated that there will be [...]
Microsoft released the anticipated 4.5 update just hours ago for the Zune HD which sees support for AVIs and DivX videos, the ability to create a SmartDJ playlist on the device streaming to the media player. There seem to also be a few tweaks that were previously unannounced by Microsoft including: Playlists are no longer [...]
This whole idea and ultimate demise all took place yesterday (March 31st). The Background Yesterday I saw a tweet by @ch9 about a video from Channel 9 Live from MIX 10 in which Bill Buxton was talking, as I find Bill’s idea’s fascinating and I was in the middle of a major procrastination session I [...]
Sorry for not being very active on here recently, I’ve had a lot of work to do for uni, however I thought I should probably share information about this. Way back at about the time of CES this year we heard that Microsoft were planning an update for the Zune HD devices that would add [...]