Listen up, Zunesters (someone out there
did buy a
Zune today, right?), we've got a job for you: bookmark this page, because we want to hear about the first time your Zune gets freaky with someone else's Zune. And we mean in the wild, too, like when you're out in public. Microsoft is really big on introducing all of us to "the social" with this thing, but remember that Metcalfe's Law cuts both ways and without other Zune users around the WiFi in the device is pretty much useless. Which is why we're dying to know how long it takes the average Zune user to actually get, uh, "social" with his or her new player -- will it be weeks, or even months, before you run into someone else with one? However it happens we want all the tawdry details of your Zune's promiscuity; maybe you can even tell us about the people you met in the process.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
number40one @ Nov 14th 2006 2:56PM
wow, it's like side-talking all over again!
thrawn @ Nov 14th 2006 3:00PM
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.
Alcaron @ Nov 14th 2006 3:27PM
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?
Morgan @ Nov 14th 2006 3:29PM
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?
A-ron @ Nov 14th 2006 3:33PM
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?"
Vadir @ Nov 14th 2006 4:21PM
thrawn - try running the installer in compatability mode, it should work.
George @ Nov 14th 2006 5:07PM
if you run the setup.exe in compatibility mode it will work, i did it
Jon @ Nov 14th 2006 5:25PM
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.
Striker @ May 22nd 2007 11:04PM
just boot up in windows, you must have a copy somewhere.
CTG @ Nov 14th 2006 3:04PM
Dear God, please let this be the last Zune article for today.
joel @ Nov 14th 2006 3:04PM
You should start a betting pool... for how long until someone makes a virus that can hop from zune to zune.
arthur barnhouse @ Nov 14th 2006 3:07PM
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!
Chris @ Nov 14th 2006 7:02PM
Have a sandwich you unoriginal basturd.
Jason @ Nov 14th 2006 3:07PM
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?
Bazza @ Nov 14th 2006 3:13PM
they already said they would include extra features as demand suggests with future firmware updates. so i guess you just need some patience.
GJP303 @ Nov 14th 2006 4:42PM
seriously, its people like you who make discussions lame. stop dissing people and actually come up with something to say
GJP303 @ Nov 14th 2006 5:13PM
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.
Brian @ Nov 14th 2006 3:16PM
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!!!!
SteveJ @ Nov 14th 2006 3:19PM
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.
James @ Nov 21st 2006 10:50AM
Absolutely classic!
Although in the states they passed a bill stopping people from misrepresenting content didn't they?
John Vargo @ Nov 14th 2006 3:21PM
So two viruses walk into a bar, and one virus says to the other virus...
shon Dempsey @ Nov 14th 2006 3:24PM
"boy im glad i joined the social!"
Chris @ Nov 16th 2006 2:05PM
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?
kidchaos888 @ Nov 14th 2006 3:21PM
....sound of crickets chirping
shon Dempsey @ Nov 14th 2006 3:22PM
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...
Matt @ Nov 14th 2006 3:22PM
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.
G Raph @ Nov 14th 2006 3:22PM
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).
lupinstel @ Nov 14th 2006 3:46PM
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.
Jeff @ Nov 14th 2006 4:10PM
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.
Fall3n13 @ Nov 14th 2006 6:17PM
@ 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....
Aaron @ Nov 14th 2006 7:54PM
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.
mike @ Nov 14th 2006 10:09PM
Hmmm....
Smells funny. Me thinks you are working in Redmond alot these days. Something smells brown and its not your Zune my friend.
dukrous @ Nov 15th 2006 12:52AM
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.
BL4H! @ Nov 15th 2006 1:50AM
"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).
Nick @ Nov 15th 2006 1:52AM
"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).
Jeff Lewis @ Nov 14th 2006 3:22PM
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?
Spencer @ Nov 14th 2006 6:50PM
"Do Bluetooth cellphone owner send their vCard to random people just because they can?"
Yeah, in Japan :\
David @ Nov 14th 2006 11:37PM
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 :)
Anthony @ Nov 14th 2006 3:24PM
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!!!!
Ronny @ Nov 15th 2006 10:28PM
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
akijikan @ Nov 14th 2006 6:48PM
Did you witness any girl-on-girl action yet?
Wardell Latham @ Nov 15th 2006 12:36PM
Not a apple fanatic or anti microsoft/zune but I have to admit that one was funny.
Kevin Laird @ Nov 14th 2006 3:25PM
I bought two soons and they got social with each other. Does that mean I got it own with myself?
BC @ Nov 14th 2006 3:25PM
enough with the zune....
achinda99 @ Nov 15th 2006 8:54AM
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...
steve @ Nov 14th 2006 3:28PM
i might be more interested in getting one if they add a virtual keyboard download and access to the internet
Dae @ Nov 14th 2006 3:32PM
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.
Jon @ Nov 14th 2006 5:08PM
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.
BadFlounder @ Nov 14th 2006 5:34PM
I picked up a Zune today and I think it rocks! I am mainly interested in it because it is not as fragile (surface) as the iPod, the bigger screen and most importantly the 360 integration. The Zune PC software streams your entire library very nicely. So I no longer have to maintain my itunes and media player libraries.
After using the Zune this afternoon I must admit I am very very impressed. It has a beautiful screen and a very intuitive and FAST interface. The zune zips between categories and through song lists, etc. It really is a great product imo. I could care less that it doesn't have games, contacts and other iPod stuff. That stuff isn't useful for me personally.
Cheers
Ryan Smith @ Nov 14th 2006 3:33PM
I went down to CC today and almost bought a Zune. I'm currently using a Gigabeat S and have had an Ipod previously. I already didn't like that the Zune wouldn't work with my recorded TV from Vista media center like my Gigabeat, but I thought it might not be that big a deal since it does at least play h.264. Also, to use the Zune, I would have to cancel my subscription to Urge or use other means to get my music on the Zune, which is a pain in the butt. Plus, there is no way I'm getting my wife to get one of these things so we can share the music. Even with all the tremendous disadvantages the Zune has over my Gigabeat or Ipod, because I love buying new stuff and wanted a big screen, I was going to get one, I figured I can always return it. But then I saw for myself how hugely huge this thing is! It's ridiculous. I walked back out of the store. If they did everything else right, if it at least had the capabilities of my gigabeat, I might have bought it even with the size. But the hugeness along with everything else, I just don't get it. They make a device so big it's only good if you want video, then they completely cripple all it's capabilities.