November 30, 2006

More Innovation from the World Leader

Microsoft shows how great they are at innovation: » Five cool tech gifts, and two to avoid | Rational rants | ZDNet.com

The other disaster of the year–and, as with all Microsoft products, this one will get better in future versions, if they stick with it–the Microsoft Zune is dazzlingly ugly, not a lot of fun to use and generally was vomited upon by people I talked to at the electronics stores. Apple's iPod is the standard people hold Zune up against, and it falls miserably short.

They tried to copy the iPod and screwed up royally. The Zune music store is difficult to install, understand, and use, and their scheme of selling "Zune points" in $5 increments instead of selling individual tracks is just silly.

Way to stay consistent, Microsoft.

Posted on November 30, 2006 09:01 AM