Has your Zune gotten social yet?
By Peter Rojas 
posted November 14th 2006 2:51PM
posted November 14th 2006 2:51PM
posted November 14th 2006 2:51PM
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wow, it's like side-talking all over again!
well i havent tried to connect to another user, because i cant get the zune software to install because....IM RUNNING THE VISTA RTM!!!!!! I called zune supoort and they must live in a time bubble cause they said..its still a beta OS...like they never heard of vista...way to go MS, so very, very sad.
Um, I thought the corporate version wasn't even going out until end of nov.?
So unless you got the corporate version they are right.
And if you got the corporate version...why would you need to install the zune software on a corporate box?
Thrwan:
Just because Vista is out of Beta, doesn't mean they need to support it yet.. its to be realeased for another month or so, which means you're running an illegal copy. You're actually surprised they wouldn't help you?
How on earth could you expect tech support to help you when your OS can't be legally purchased? And if you are legitimately entitled to be using Vista, surely you have a contact at MS for things like "How do I get this gadget to work?"
thrawn - try running the installer in compatability mode, it should work.
if you run the setup.exe in compatibility mode it will work, i did it
I hate to say this, but Vista isn't out yet. RTM means released to manufacturers. That was the 8th. They promised it would be available for developers (thoes with MSDN) within a week. As of 30 seconds ago its still not on MSDN. So either you work for a manufacturer (I doubt it) or you have a pirated copy.
Quit your bitchin.
just boot up in windows, you must have a copy somewhere.
Dear God, please let this be the last Zune article for today.
You should start a betting pool... for how long until someone makes a virus that can hop from zune to zune.
It wasn't funny the first time that joke was said, and it sure as hell ain't funny this time. Stop making virus jokes!
Have a sandwich you unoriginal basturd.
Is it possible MS can issue a firmware update that will allow the Zune's wi-fi to be true wireless or would that take to much?
they already said they would include extra features as demand suggests with future firmware updates. so i guess you just need some patience.
seriously, its people like you who make discussions lame. stop dissing people and actually come up with something to say
I didn't say that his topic wasn't stupid, i just said that it's a waste of time (the people who have to read it) to be saying things that don't matter to YOU personally. Oh ya, i realize that saying this is a "waste of time" but if you stop then thats one less thing later on that someone has to waste their time on.
You should have got two of them so you can share with yourself.
enough with the zune....
1. Plugging in the Zune to your PC says that the first thing needed is a firmware update. I noticed that without the firmware update, WiFi---if you can even call it that on a Zune---doesn't work.
2. The one I purchased at a Fred Meyer store lists the device as "IPOD HARDWARE" on the receipt. Classic!!!!
The number one use for this feature will be to send Tub Girl or Goetse with filenames such as "Fun pic!" to fellow Zune users.
Absolutely classic!
Although in the states they passed a bill stopping people from misrepresenting content didn't they?
I,ve been trying for over 2 hours to get my media center pc to download "Update Rollup 2". Zune software will not install w/o it. arrgh!!!!
I once had this problem, even called MS about it, and they were prepared to be quite helpful, but I couldn't wait. I ended up fixing the problem on my own, although they did offer me some important info.
If you'd like the solution I ended up using, I sent them an email with a step by step on what I did. let me know if you're interested
So two viruses walk into a bar, and one virus says to the other virus...
"boy im glad i joined the social!"
Zune looks like crap, it really looks like a big screen surrounded by a cheap plastic case. And it's made by microsoft so it's definitely NOT going to have bugs in it, right?
To be honest, I really can't imagine people sharing their music with random strangers just because they both have a Zune...
Do Bluetooth cellphone owner send their vCard to random people just because they can?
"Do Bluetooth cellphone owner send their vCard to random people just because they can?"
Yeah, in Japan :\
well, this could be the begining of some very weird digital flirting. you see a girl and you send her a song you like, and if she likes it, she'll send smthin back and stuff will go on from there.
yeh, welcome to the social ... a very very Geeky Social :)
....sound of crickets chirping
I would think people savvy enough to read engadget.com wouldnt be purchasing a zune, let alone on its launch day. Then again I've been known to give the common engadgeteer the benefit of the doubt before...
Sorry this isnt happening. I dont buy garbage. The zune is a bad joke... You know the ones that when you tell people that just stare at you like they wanna kill you.
My girlfriend and I both bought zunes today at Best Buy. After we installed the software (worked flawlessy on xp pro on both our notebooks). We started downloading the crap out of the marketplace with our subscriptions. I just met her a hour ago at a coffee shop and we sent each other some songs to test everything out. A bunch of people kept asking us what we were using and what the hell we were doing. It was pretty cool. I am not a big fan of the 3 x 3 plan, but if you have the subscription package on marketplace, its not a big deal at all since all songs are free (just your $15 fee per month).
You met her an hour ago and she is already your girlfriend? I however don't doubt you when you say that you "downloaded the crap out of marketplace", I am sure that it is nothing but crap. You must be self employed to have so much time to dedicate to buying a zune, filling it with stuff and wooing chicks at coffeeshops. Self employed, or an astroturf salesman.
I don't wanna hate the Zune. Really, I don't. Even still, you can't tell me someone other than Bill Gates is signing your paycheck. I don't believe one word of your post.
@ lupinstel
you are a fricken idiot. If you wanna bash please read properly. He wrote:
"My girlfriend and I both bought zunes today at Best Buy"
"I just met her a hour ago at a coffee shop and we sent each other some songs to test everything out."
Hence meaning they went and bought them and then met up at a coffee shop later with their zunes...idiot.....
Even if it may be fake, at least make sense when your insulting him....
Jeff, ummm, so if someone has a good experience with a Zune, they must be lying and being paid by MS? Come on, it is possible, and probably likely, for consumers to have a positive experience.
Hmmm....
Smells funny. Me thinks you are working in Redmond alot these days. Something smells brown and its not your Zune my friend.
The 3x3 plan is the biggest thing I do not like about the Zune, but I hadn't considered the buffet plan to offset that. Interesting take on the Zune, but I still can't see myself buying one.
"I am not a big fan of the 3 x 3 plan, but if you have the subscription package on marketplace, its not a big deal at all since all songs are free (just your $15 fee per month)"
Well if you are paying a fee in order to download the songs then they aren't free. Hense, the concept of you paying money and then being allowed to download. I get free movie rentals (i just have to pay the rental fee).
"I am not a big fan of the 3 x 3 plan, but if you have the subscription package on marketplace, its not a big deal at all since all songs are free (just your $15 fee per month)"
Well if you are paying a fee in order to download the songs then they aren't free. Hense, the concept of you paying money and then being allowed to download. I get free movie rentals (i just have to pay the rental fee).
Did you witness any girl-on-girl action yet?
Not a apple fanatic or anti microsoft/zune but I have to admit that one was funny.
I bought two soons and they got social with each other. Does that mean I got it own with myself?
its pretty clear its a pirated copy...
as for the zune... the virus thing is pretty funny, and interesting... did microsoft install any form of antivirus software on it? as for firmware updates to enable full wifi... i wudn't be suprised if someone pulled out a firmware that turns the zune into a pda in less than a week...
i might be more interested in getting one if they add a virtual keyboard download and access to the internet
Wireless with other zunes only how lame..... it could connect to a home wireless network to download music/video from Zune Marketplace or your C:/.
Software is a bit Gody when it comes to linking to the xbox 360 as in it does not work.
And you cant use it as a removable drive like iPod or Achros......
i think i will get a zune. i want to be part of something bigger than I. when i say "I" i referring to I-pod. i have a 60GB ipod video and its getting old to me now.
Another Microsoft troll. Are you testing marketing slogans? "I want to be something bigger than I" --- sounds like something some marketing firm came up with for MS after getting paid a cool 100K or so.