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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    01/09/09

    In reply to Microsoft Preparing to Put Zune Out of Its Misery
    I don't think MS is ready to give up the ghost just yet! As a dedicated Zune consumer, I certainly hope not. I don't know what the actual market share is, but I am sure that Microsoft turning a healthy profit on the Anti-Ipod.
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    Image of WagCurious WagCurious
    01/09/09

    In reply to Microsoft Preparing to Put Zune Out of Its Misery
    Should I even bother mentioning that the "recent glitch which rendered a popular Zune model dead on New Year's" was completely due to the processor HARDWARE, not the Microsoft software?


    You know, I would say stand up and something, but I feel so bad that they canned every single Valleywag writer (except Owen) that I can't bring myself to do it. Owen's almost-accurate reporting is as good as it gets, and I love the big bear.

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    01/09/09

    @WagCurious: You are wrong, sir.
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    Image of rekoil rekoil
    01/09/09

    @WagCurious: No, it was software. It was a bug in the driver code for a specific chip, but it was most definitely the driver software, not the chip itself. See for yourself.
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    Image of WagCurious WagCurious
    01/10/09

    @HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak: OK, I dumbed down my comment for the new Gawker readers... I should have said "a driver written by Freescale, not Microsoft software".
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    Image of WagCurious WagCurious
    01/10/09

    @rekoil: Yes, you are correct. The point is the fault was Freescale's, not Microsoft's.
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    Image of websterphreaky websterphreaky
    01/09/09

    In reply to Microsoft Preparing to Put Zune Out of Its Misery
    AND THE iPUD (LATE TO MARKET) "which mimicked" the RIO,which PRECEEDED it by over a YEAR!


    That's Stevie Gods, the GREAT iNOvator.

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    Image of Krashstar Krashstar
    01/09/09

    @websterphreaky: Well, the iPod certainly didn't mimic the 'success' of Rio, if that's what you mean.


    "Noted all it's failures" is closer to the mark. And then there's Microsoft, which seems unable to take note of anything at all.

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    Image of Kari's Favorite Mark Kari's Favorite Mark
    01/09/09

    In reply to Microsoft Preparing to Put Zune Out of Its Misery
    The problem is they haven't forced a monopoly in any other business than OS, which has funded all of their ill-considered failures in other businesses. If I were an MS shareholder I'd want them to forget about everything else and just keep milking the OS and give me all the money they save in pointless R&D.
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    01/09/09

    @formerly it takes a lot to laugh: They also have what amounts to a monopoly in office software. And yeah, they "forced" that - they used to have real competition there (remember WordPerfect?). They get more money from Office than they do from Windows these days. So it can be done, and the payoff can be enormous. One success out of 20 is probably more than worth it for them.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    01/09/09

    In reply to Microsoft Preparing to Put Zune Out of Its Misery
    They are like the surfer bragging he invented the wave. They caught one, Microsoft did, when they retailed DOS for IBM and it took off. Then the GUI from Xerox or Apple; they stole that, too. Then they set about copying 1-2-3 the spreadsheet and Wordperfect the word processor and Netscepae the browser and every other idea out there and because they had the monopoly on everybody's desktop they are exalted! This is why every other word out of a MS mouth is "innovation." Because they never had any.
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    01/09/09

    @Tremonius: Netescapade? "Net-Escape? I forget.
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    Image of smartastic smartastic
    01/09/09

    In reply to Microsoft Preparing to Put Zune Out of Its Misery
    that's a hilarious tattoo. it's a joke, right?
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    01/09/09

    @smartastic: I think that's the guy who famously legally changed his name to Zune.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    01/09/09

    In reply to Microsoft Preparing to Put Zune Out of Its Misery
    Micorosft's music player has always been an also-ran, a late-to-market entry which mimicked the iPod but offered no new features consumers found compelling.


    Here, "music player" clearly means PC and "iPod" is code for Mac.


    Also, damn.


    That is one sexy man.

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    Image of sample032 sample032
    01/09/09

    @Mount_Prion: You might have a point if Microsoft sold PCs, Windows didn't have 90%+ market share, it was "also-ran," or it was "late-to-market."


    Other than that, spot on.

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    01/09/09

    @sample032: Thanks, brah!
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    Image of Ryder Ripps Ryder Ripps
    01/09/09

    In reply to Microsoft Preparing to Put Zune Out of Its Misery
    "I'm a PC. And I give up and have no ingenuity just like B.G."
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    01/09/09

    @Ryder Ripps: Hating on Bill Gates? Let's talk about philanthropy...


    Thought so.

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