Those of us who love “On the Media” on NPR and the sarcastic Bob Garfield will appreciate that a one on one with Bill Gates is probably not going to turn out well. Unlike the …

Mega music oligopoly Universal Records pushed Microsoft into a corner today after they inked a download deal for the Zune Marketplace one week before it was due to go live.
Universal Music, a unit of …

Mike Elgan, who is the author of last weeks Computer world article “Opinion: Why Microsoft’s Zune scares Apple to the core” has kindly responded to my posting last week. I have taken the time to …

The jolly jokers over at Tech Digest have blogged the “Top Ten Reasons to Love Zune“. Here is my response.
1) Everyone loves and underdog – yep but Microsoft is not an underdog. An underdog …

The new Zune Player from Microsoft is to be released before Christmas.  According to Analyst Shaun Wu, the Zune is a repurposed Toshiba Gigabeat Player with some new software.

“Microsoft Zune appears underwhelming. Microsoft had hinted …

The surprise announcement that the new 30GB Video iPod to $249 has left Microsoft flat footed. They had intended to announce the Zune 30GB player at $299 later this year. This would have still been …

I think I have said before that the only thing that Zune is going to kill is Playsforsure partners. This player is no IPod Killer. Despite Microsoft’s marketing dollars the product still needs to deliver …

Microsoft’s new Zune player means death to the “Playsforsure” platform for the delivery of music services. CNet has a go at explaining Microsoft’s bipolar behavior and Steve Balmer speaks in riddles:
“We do need a more …

Om Malik, the 800 pound guerilla of non-blogging blogging, weighs in today on what a earlier posted about, that is Microsoft’s Attention Deficit Disorder. Here is the first 6 that he mentions that is …

My Windows machine the other day decided to stop working after I installed the Windows Spyware from Microsoft. This is the “critical update” that installs the checker to see if I have a legitimate Windows …

There has been plenty of discussion this week about the new Microsoft Music Player code name Zune. The first thing that struck me was the odd nature of the announcement, through a series of leaks …

Apparently this was made by Microsoft Staff. (-:

There are two things that I don’t get about the Geniune Windows “Advantage”. Firstly, this is indeed spyware. If anyother company, lets pull one randomly out of the air, say Sony, installed a backdoor and …