Thanks Cheers to Damien in Australia for the new Zuneinsider background image. If you have a cool picture and would like to be included in my background, email me at askzune(then type the "at" symbol)microsoft.com. For me to pick it; it has to be PG.

So I'm actually more excited to eat pumpkin pie than turkey. But that's me. Anyways, no posts for a few days. A lot of folks have asked me, so how is Zune doing? Despite the iFanboy pleas that Zune is DOA; it's tanking, brown is ugly, etc, I can tell you that we are exactly where we hoped we'd be. That is, without sharing specific numbers after the first week of sales. We're all looking forward to a successful holiday retail season. We're also thinking in long term here. And hey, so are you ;) Anyways...

Ok, I'm really curious. Which Zune color did you get? Didn't get one? Which color do you like?

An interesting commentary from ZDNet's Matthew Miller asks: "Is the press being too harsh on the Microsoft Zune?" He raises an interesting point, and as the Motley Fool notes , "Everyone loves to hate on Mr. Softy." I also know that the 'Scene put together a collection of 100 Zune reviews, so check that out . In other news rumors, I've seen some chatter about generation 1.5 Zune devices : available in orange and pink, and available in 60 gb and 80 gb models, coming out after the holidays. Our friends...