After many long nights, weekends, breakfast/lunch/dinners spent working on Zune, today we're in stores. So we're having a little party to celebrate - we had balloons: catered breakfast: and the best part - custom soda! Thanks to everybody on the product team, my other friends in marketing, everyone in design, everybody! And a big thanks to everybody out there in the Zune community!

As Sportsunit noted , Zune has debuted in the number two spot, according to early NPD data. We're happy to see this but we know this is going to be multi-year investment. Quoting thestreet.com : For the week ended Nov. 18, Microsoft had a 9% unit share and 13% dollar share of the U.S. portable player market, while Apple had 63% unit share and 72.5% dollar share. Also, retailers are telling us that they've seen Zune delivering incremental sales, and that's resulting in growth of the category. So Zune...

What's up ATL? The 'Scene covers the Zune Launch Party in Atlanta with T.I.! Read more here . (Thanks, The Scene!). What about you? Were you there? How was it? Post comments