Good. Push the Zune brand by any means.

Zune is much more than a player, it encapsulates an entire brand. It's allowed me (and probably others) the ability to discover artists I would of otherwise never heard of.

All the power to you and the rest of the Zune team in making the Zune successful.

I was hoping to be able to download some of these videos to my Zune.  It doesn't look like that's going to happen though, which is really too bad.

Very nice. I like the Zune advertising on the live earth site and I bet it was all over the stages.

I cannot wait to go to the Zune marketplace and buy the videos...oh, wait...nevermind

Cavan

comments 2 and 3...ouch.  i'm telling you cesar, if nothing else, ask for permission to start your own video zunecasts right here for this kind of stuff.

Please please please, Release Zune software for Linux. You know what I Just LOVE about Micro$oft? You would expect new operating system to run faster and better on your system but NOOOOO! Windows vista is so much slower and is a horrible OS and even more horrible than the horrible windows XP. I can't stand the fact that Vista is KILLING my hardware!

I'm sorry Ceasar, None of this is your fault and I know that.

Go ahead and be and A$$ and delete this comment, I KNOW that will happen!

I now use Ubuntu and it feels SOOO good!

Pingus,

    new operating system actually tend to require better hardware.(see OSX) Why? because hardware is getting better so they add more functionality to take advantage of it. I'm using Vista with all the appropriate hardware and it is soooo much better than xp and everything works on it. besides, the only real steep requirement is the RAM and you can get 1GB for $30 now adays so thats not really the big of a deal.

Pingus, maybe you should buy a new PC instead of using hardware from the stone age. o.O

I've run Vista Ultimate on 1.8 Ghz, and 512 RAM and it runs just as fast as XP and to my surprise, I can run a Video Converter, Frostwire (please dont kill me Cesar), IE, and Windows Live messenger with VERY little lag. But on Windows XP just a video converter can lag me alot. Of course I'm back to XP now because that copy was already installed on another PC and I dont want to keep up with cracks its not really worth it to feel so..cornered. I'll just buy a Genuine copy soon.

Now for my complaining. My Premium Earphone broke for no real reason and Customer Support wont replace them because they already did once. ;_; Maybe if they were more DURABLE! I mean the darn* things are 40 dollars for crying outloud!

Finally on the subject, now if you keep pushing the brand more than Apple does the iPod, and air mroe commercials like the "This is why I'm hot" one, You'll probably start having more devices selling in no time. Also some online banner ads would help.

What really surprised me is just how well the streaming video works. And the usability was easy and non-distracting. And it worked on Mac, too, no doubt. This event was handled very well on MSN... much better than it was handled on television.

I wonder what Al Gore (who's on the board of Apple) thought about teaming up with Zune...

Someone said:

"   new operating system actually tend to require better hardware.(see OSX) Why?"

I disagree. For me, Mac OS X has gotten *faster* on the same hardware as new versions are released. The code is better optimized for each processor line (G3, G4, G5, Intel) with each iteration, and new features that require hardware that isn't available on a given machine are automatically disabled (Quartz Extreme or Core Image, for example).

For reference, I've been running Mac OS X on an old Power Mac G3 ("Blue & White") since Mac OS X 10.0. This is a machine that's almost 10 years old, but runs Mac OS X 10.4 better and faster than any previous version.

Of course, I don't expect this trend to continue forever, but it's a sign that Apple continues to optimize and improve the underlying OS code with every release.

Obligatory Zune comment:

Where are the new Zune features buyers were promised? Oh yeah... and...

I really liked the Zune screen... until I saw the iPhone screen. Now THAT is a crystal clear screen! Makes me want a laptop with a 200 pixel per inch screen.

Zuneless: I think you missed my point. Each new edition of OSX isn't a new operating system, but rather an improvement to an existing one. Vista was built from the ground up as a completely new operating system with new features to take advantage of the better standard hardware out there. Now if Microsoft releases a service pack for vista that makes it slower then ya that's a major problem. By the way what I was talking about with OSX was the switch from OS 9 to OSX. I tried installing OSX on my G3 when it came out and that computer never worked again.

@Zuneless: You're missing the point.

OS X offers incremental updates to it's system. I mean they're touting "iChat" as an improved feature. That's when you know they're looking for things to throw onto the feature list.

Let's compare Apples to Apple (No pun intended):

Vista introduces a bunch of "version 1.0" platforms, which are not as time tested as their OS X counterparts. This means, performance is going to suffer a bit.

Do you remember when OSX came out? How horrible things were, or is that something Steve Jobs likes people to forget?

When Apple was in Vista's position, they had the exact same problems. Things evolve over time.

Perhaps, if you actually put some thought into your post instead of replying with the same generic and unfounded responses you wouldn't be as wrong.

as entertaining the "linux vs windows vs osx" debate is, I need to reign it in. future posts on this debate will be moderated

aww ok =).

I love the MSN and Zune were branded in with Live Earth.  I too wish that at some point, someone at MS will realize that if you can make 125 million in video downloads on xbox live, that this might be a good service for your media player as well.  Hello Bill, your turning away money, how un-billionarish.