Music, culture, and the inside scoop from Cesar Menendez,
a Microsoft employee working on Zune - Microsoft's new music project.

August 27, 2007

On the Grid Again

Aa'aand we're back!

Today is my first day back at work - the wedding/honeymoon/opening presents was great. It's good to be back, and stay tuned for the Zune news as I have it. Thanks to everybody for the kind words, too. You rock.

 |  Monday, August 27, 2007 7:48 PM  |  40 Comments
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Oliver

Cool to hear from you again. Best wishes from Germany. Looking forward to the news...

Best,

Oli

HazyCloud

Congratulations on getting married! Hope you enjoyed your honeymoon. Can't wait for some more Zune news. When's the Halo US military Zune available?

IndyLux

Welcome back!  Congratulations!  We're hungry for news.

John in S.Florida

Welcome back.  I'm sure the first thing you did when you got back was turn on your Zune. ;)

Also looking forward to some real news.

Any comments about the Urge/Rhapsody deal?  There are rumors floating around that Urge did this because of perceived withdrawl from PlayForSure.  Other rumors suggest this will impact available content on Zune MarketPlace.  In any case, you guys can't be too happy with losing a great partner like MTV.

Travis

Hey Hazy,

Military Zune is already available through distribution at military bases, I belive. Welcome back Cesar.. http://www.zunespring.com . I also gave you a proper welcoming this morning on my site too. ( What can I say, things were slow while you were away. )

Dan

Congrats again on getting married! Im secretly hoping you get breifed on alot of firmware news that should be released tomorrow :) haha on to my real reason to comment.

cesar i was wondering if you had any news on the zune alarm clock docks coming out. I hate seeing all the ones for ipods but not for zune. at http://www.memorexmakeitlive.com/homespeaker.html they have a release date july 2007 and may 2007 but it seems like those have long past. I tried to get in touch with memorex but i called customer service and they didnt even know what it is then i asked for a number for someone who would know more about it and they directed me towards a distributor that sells more than that and he didnt even know what a zune was. when i asked for a number from him he gave me the same customer service number i called before him. i was hoping you have connections to someone because im just getting the run around. you should see the e-mails i got back that completely avoided my question about the product.

admin

Dan, John, I'm just getting up to speed now, but I'll check into those and get back to you

timedrifter

Welcome back Cesar!

And Congrats Again!

segadc

Hey welcome back to the social. ;)

Sw0rdf1sh

Welcome to the "club", hope the honeymoon was rockin.

Look forward to some big news from you guys on the Team soon!

Sean

Welcome back!

ray

Welcome back Cesar, hope you had a good honeymoon. Zune land has been crappy without you- no news at all!

RomeoDude

welcome back... congrats!

Diego

welcome back Cesar, can't wait to hear some news about a new firmware upgrade for the current Zune and info on the new Zune 2.

Dan

yea ive actually been going nuts trying to not look at the site because i know there wasnt going to be updates haha. ok thanks cesar cant wait to hear about em haha get rid of the ipod clock saturated market. hopefully soon a zune saturated alarm clock market :) and once again welcome back

Adam

Did ya get any good Zune-related presents?

And how's the missus feel about the social (any chance for a guest column?)

admin

what's up Dan - ok, here's what I found out - the product was plan but got delayed (obviously). when I hear more info, I'll post it.

And John re: your question - This doesn’t actually have an effect on the content available in Zune Marketplace, but for details on MTV’s plans, you should contact them.

Woody56292

welcome back Cesar!

Hope you enjoyed your honeymoon.

Can't wait to hear zune news from again. =D

Dan

ok thanks cesar. i tried writing to engadget, cnet, everyone even the company themselves but you gave me the most news haha you think they would at least update their site. thanks for at least confirming a delay

Zoa 342

Gratz on getting married. I hope there some good Zune News tomorrow. Also some info on the Zune 2 would be great

John O'B

Glad to have ya back!  Congrats again!

Diego

Welcome back. Been busy copying the iPhone? :)

mazola

g'day

Good to have you back Ceasar... now we've just got to find Zunester and Zuneguy...

lunaclown

Welcome back.  Your site has become one of my daily reads and it's good to see it going again.  

Most Awesomest

Glad you're back! My Zune hasnt seen any new music since you left XD. I thank you for introducing me to such awesome artists.

Eric John

Cesar... Welcome back... I'm headed home on leave here in a few days hoping I can hit Austin City Limits while I am back... Any chance of  Zune presence there?  What about you... any chance you'll be there?

Chris

Welcome back Cesar and Congrats! While you were gone I bought my wife a new Pink Zune, though I can't say I made her open it with my webcam running to make another time lapse video, as I did when i got mine.

Reyer

Welcome back ceasar!

Kevyn

Yay, you're back! Hope you had a great time :-)

Leodan

I always read your blog but never really post anything. I had to come on and Congratulate you on your wedding. I appreciate all the work you do for the Zune community and hope you have wonderful marriage.

lpxxfaintxx

Welcome back Ceasar! Hope you had a joyful and memorable wedding. Good luck to your marriage, hope it lasts 'till the death.

-lpxxfaintxx

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apathymusic

Hi Cesar!  Hope you had a good honeyZune.

TiredFan

welcome back

Sri

Walcome back!! Hope you had a gr8 time njoying!! any wedding pics 4 us?? :)

cant wait 4 posts from zuneinsider. I recently bought a Zune (on woot for 149.99!! there were 6300 more woots on that day.) for my friend on his B'day and he absolutely in luv with it.

mathyou

we missed you. welcome back!

congrats from lisbon (im on vacation but i live in NY and i have a zune :))

damien

Yo, welcome back! Glad you had fun!

Andrew

Hey Cesar, welcome back! I got married on the 19th so I suspect you and I have been living parallel lives for the last three weeks. My wife and I have a burning hatred of wedding DJs, so we did all the reception music ourselves using Zune and my laptop - it was awesome, worked even better than we'd hoped.

Jon

I believe we were promised news.  Real news?

Terrie

Looking for a zune radio alarm clock docking station.  Are there any out there?  I only see for the iPod?

Thanks.

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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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