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a Microsoft employee working on Zune - Microsoft's new music project.

December 16, 2006

Satire, Rumor, and Speculation

Our buddy Charlie (high-five!) asked me to clear up this story on a parody website called Unconfirmed Sources. It's satire. Zuneboards and Zunecorps got it right: the story is fake. From Unconfirmed Sources' disclaimer:

In case you didn't get it, none of the stories are real.
It's all fake.
We made it all up.
It's satire.
The people might be real but the quotes are not.
If it gets you mad, get a life.(see first amendment)

There you have it. File this one under rumor and speculation. In other words: DELETED.

 |  Saturday, December 16, 2006 10:02 PM  |  9 Comments

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Zune-Online.com

I believe UnconfirmedSources should change their background to a "We don't say real news" tiled one.

Also each visitor should hear the track:

"I'm a fake dont believe me, I'm a fake dont believe me"

After doing this say should phish your e-mail and telephone number and contact you back to convince you this is not real.

I'm still laughing at how many people believed this ;)

Sean

What was the fake story?

jason

so i know this is off topic (and the discussion about this ended a little while ago), but a feature I'd love to see in the Zune is streaming Internet radio...  especially if it involves Pandora :-)

just a thought

Matt

It's amazing we've evolved this far, particularly as the people who believe this stuff are generally the same ones we elect into office.  Seriously.  What kind of barely simian troll do you have to be to buy something like that? lol!

Incidentally I crumbled like a 3 week old cookie this weekend and am now the proud owner of a 360........well I needed a Tag for when I got my Zune right?....... RantAMatt if anyone is interested lol!

Harvey - Zunerama

My player just got updated with Firmware 1.2.

 Any insider scoops on what changed, beyond the generic reference to "stability and performance" that came with the update?

 Would look to see your inside insights into what was fixed or enhanced in this update!

Harvey

Zunerama

John from Florida

I thought you guys were going to keep the community updated on firmware releases?  Please do a better job about announcing these things beforehand.

Woody56292

yeah.... so what exactly did the firmware improve? I can't tell.

It seems like my songs are switching faster and I can scroll down faster, but I think it is just subconscious because I am thinking it is faster...

what changed?

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I'm Cesar Menendez. I left the Xbox marketing world for Microsoft's new foray into music - Zune. Community, cool videos, music, discovering new music - these are things I love. In the past I wrote music reviews for RealNetworks, and before that I volunteered at KCMU (now KEXP). Get in touch w/ me using this email: AskZune (then type the at symbol) microsoft.com (please no solicitors)
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