focusing on Zune as software and service, which was then followed up by a vague statement from Microsoft PR that they would "share more information about the evolution of the Zune entertainment service and Zune hardware as future plans develop." None of that inspires much confidence that Microsoft will ever produce a Zune HD2, and I certainly don't blame them, since relatively few people ever bought a Zune player and the real growth right now is in smartphones. But as I wrote a... Read more →

My zune was working on Friday when I was driving home from work and it sat on my night all weekend. Now I got to work this morning (Monday) and plugged it into my XP workstation @ work and it keeps switching between the following screens on the zune. 1) Connect Zune to your PC 2) On your PC open the Zune software and restore the Zune device firmware. I have been unable to do step #2 because it keeps switching back and forth between the messages above. I have tried different USB ports and and... Read more →