Zune site down, 3.0 software update imminent
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Sep 16th 2008 12:59AM
posted Sep 16th 2008 12:59AM
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posted Sep 16th 2008 12:59AM
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Who cares?
maybe about 3% of the PMP market...just maybe....
Lol, why are reading a gadget blog again?
Man. This one never gets old. It's like oh man this guy is so witty, I wish I could marry him. I'd go freaking gay just for that wit. Please, Tim, spill some of that wit all over me.
(adding comment before I regret typing this and delete it)
apparently you don't.
why are you reading this then? oh right, you have no life. not even online.
As someone outside North America, I wish I can say I care... Come on Microsoft, make the Zune worldwide
Hey fanboi, didn't you noticed? There are at most 3 of you who thrash Zune in this article, your number keeps getting smaller and smaller. =))
Bring it on, baby.
Get it NOW!!
http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=6136349f-2b32-4946-83b5-a09775531ef4&displaylang=en
nevermind it says version 3.0 but the download is 2.5 :(
Can you, or when can you get the Zune in UK?
I'm desperate for this thing. The software i use already, but very limited.....
Else, i'll have to settle for iPod Nano 4G....
AOTS on the video of the home page!!!
bring on the freebees!
Sorry, it's $9.95 to update your Zune 30.
icepop4who It's Apple that charges for updates.
wow... that was joke. sorry you guys didn't get it
i hope i am not the only one waiting up for it.
everybody on zuneboards is pulling a alnighter
well i have work in the morning so im not. i'll just check it out when i get up lol. i waited this long, i can wait a few more hours for sleep. but im sure ur not.
Woohoo!
I can't wait to install 3G firmware on my 1G Zune (Brownie).
Apple --> Lick ma sack! (aka Eat your heart out)
not @ brian
"hey baby can i install my firmware in your 1g brownie"
@Brian
3G firmware? What the Hell are you talking about?
He means third generation firmware on first generation Zunes.
scroll up aaron....scroll up.
can't escape apple comments even in a Zune post, eh?
Nope, especially not when someone mentions Apple.
of course not. its engadget. although if they didnt mention Apple this post would have been literally one sentence long.
and i will never get why its such a huge flipping deal when Apple releases a new laptop and everyone else is putting new ones out every month.
@ kojo87
That's exactly why.. Apple doesn't release new laptops every month.. Besides.. It's not like Engadget doesn't cover the new laptops that come out every month.. And it's not Engadget making it a huge flipping deal.. It's all the comments that accompany that article that make it a huge flipping deal.. And yea.. Supply and demand dictates things from there~
shoulda titled it "we'll be back zune"
i dont like microsoft but i hope they slap apple in the face and get em back in line.
Here in Canada, the advertisments said coming Zune before they were released.. They should have kept the pattern :P
W00t!! 3.0 is upon us.
I like how Engadget has coverage on the Zune now just as they always did for Apple. Makes me feel kinda special, but then not really since they can't help but mention Apple in every article. Get over it guys. Geezus
It's Engadget policy.
Apple post contains Apple and Microsoft post contains Microsoft AND Apple.
Engadget is like one of those fancy salads. There's always a bit of fruit in there that nobody asked for.
http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/mgc_chatbox.php?do=view_chatbox
live blog of the launch....if you'd call it a liveblog
Hopefully they add XNA and LIPS!
Sweet...here's hoping for some cool shit.
...at proving that you have nothing better than to hit F5 incessantly so that you can post the first comment on an all-important news post.
...to post the most cliched comment of all time.
Shall I continue?
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the iPast.
I'm dismayed that this update won't bring unicode support. Biggest complaint I've had with my 80GB.
Look what I found while I was waiting!!
http://www.zune.net/ZuneLogo.gif
...
goodnight.
I'm kinda stuck with my iPod Nano "fatty".
You know what they say. If it ain't broke...
Aw, who am I kidding? Rules are meant to be broken, right? Riiiight?
Zune 3.0 download link is live at http://download.microsoft.com ! Search for Zune in the downloads search.
Which is why in the body of the listing, it says version 2.5. Just wait this one out, folks.
That link must be mislabeled. File details state its the 2.5 update from this past spring. Nice eyes though, I have no idea why it would say 3.0 now.
despite being called Zune3, the stuff on download (currently) appears to be the previous version - packages marked 4/29/2008. name and mod date of the higher level dirs promise v3 - but looks like we'll have to wait a little while longer.
I kinda get your point
You know, becuase NOBODY knows that this outage is for 3.0, right? And that Zune logo in no way resembles the obvious, riiiight?
That post was meant for Computer.dude.28.
This IE8 stuff is really getting on my nerves, even when in compatability mode. Maybe I should just give up on IE altogether.
It's not IE8. It's Engadget.
Be lucky you haven't had it more.
Actually, what happens is when I hit reply, IE refreshes the page, then I need to hit reply again. Sometimes I forget, and then stuff like this happens.