One of my buddies on the Zune team, Hoop , dishes details on what it's like to work on the Zune team - check the interview here . ( Hoop, holding the special employee Zune we all got )

Happy Friday everybody! A few weeks back, our buddies at on10 put together a video about life at Microsoft. In case you missed the video when it dropped: Life At Microsoft - The Truth Revealed It's actually pretty accurate funny ;)

I hope everybody had a great weekend! Did you see New Music Friday ? Some good music in there. The other day I walked around with a camera and took some pictures, of the hallways: (reception area) (upstairs) DJ stand in the cafeteria (DJ set up) (that's my Pink Zune )

Some of you may have noticed that the Zune team is hiring. It's true; the Zune team is growing. It's like we've been saying all along, dear blog reader: the Zune is a multi-year investment, one that the company is fully behind. Hence, a bigger team. And on the inside, I'm seeing a lot more "welcome so and so to the Zune team" emails come in. Very exciting. And hey, if you're a new hire on the Zune team, and are reading this: Welcome! On a semi-related note, I want to share a pet peeve: when "grow...