This Week in ZMP

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Ricardo Dawkins — Fri, 25 May 2007 17:49:06 GMT

@John...way to go. nice questions. You make him talk... ;-)

@admin: thanks for the answers.

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John in S.Florida — Thu, 24 May 2007 23:04:24 GMT

Cesar, I appreciate the response to those questions. More than anything I'm relieved that you folks have a plan and know what your going to include in the next couple of firmware updates. I didn't get that impression several months ago. Take care

MarketPlace Everywhere - XBox, Zune, Media Center

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admin — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:57:58 GMT

John, very good questions! You asked them in such a way that I can give you an answer, without revealing too many details about un-announced stuff. Honestly, the beta testing question is a little too "secret sauce," so I'm going to respectfully decline an answer.

1. Yes.

2. Yes.

3. Good question - answer is a little too

"secret sauce revealing"

4. We have a few channels to introduce new ideas in the stuff we're planning, and feedback from this blog (and me) is a part of that.

I appreciated you keeping away from specifics around what and when. take care!

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John in S.Florida — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:16:21 GMT

Oh, perhaps Cesar you could get someone to respond generically to the following questions without revealing what you are working on...

1. Do you have a well defined roadmap for Zune for the next 18 mos? Do you basically know what you want to include in the next couple firmware releases.

2. Is it correct to assume that your firmware planning includes a balance of user requested features and new "platform" building blocks that you want/need to get in?

3. How do you beta test Zune software/firmware? Internally Only? Have you ever thought of using an external focus group?

4. How do user requested features get included? Is it a internal blogger such as yourself that promotes an idea at a planning meeting? Or is it more like here is the user wish list, lets prioritize them and then vote what gets included?

I was very careful not to ask what or when.

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John in S.Florida — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:53:12 GMT

My bad, I thought someone from Microsoft had said that we can expect Spring & Fall updates like XBox does. Can you say if we'll see improvements before the second generation Zunes that Jason Reincorp confirmed hit the store shelves? And if you can't say, then I want recommend that you folks do that or it will seem like you put us on the back burner to get a new device out the door. Thanks and keep up the good work on your new marketing campaign.

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admin — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:42:22 GMT

John, I'm guessing you mean "I want news about the next Zune firmware update?"

If so, no specific news on firmware updates for you (other than the generic-yet-true "the team is continually working on improving Zune" message). I would suggest subscribing to the "firmware" tag (http://zuneinsider.com/archive/tags/firmware/default.aspx) to get news as soon as it breaks :)

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John in S.Florida — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:32:18 GMT

Can we have a Spring Update update? Thanks

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brutha-man — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:10:22 GMT

Congrats on the McCartney catalog. I guess he is still bitter at Apple?

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Ivan — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:27:36 GMT

A few months ago, I was able to purchase Paul McCartney's new orchestral album Ecce Cor Meum. The end of the second track had an audible "blip" in it. Have his orchestral albums been re-encoded for quality purposes with this new acquisition?

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Ricardo Dawkins — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:11:20 GMT

Atreve Te - Te ...give me a break!

http://www.cliczune.com/2007/05/paul_mccartney_.html

coup ! ?

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Ruperto G — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:51:43 GMT

It Means Tango of Sin

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William — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:07:54 GMT

Calle 13 is one of my favorite bands, loved their first CD and the second one is much better. They're so different from the rest of Reggaeton/Latin Hip Hop artists out there.

The Tango del Pecado Remix is nice, I downloaded it yesterday. Nice to see Latinos and the Zune together :)

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lt.milo — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:54:34 GMT

I was very disappointed to see that the "Bad Plus" new CD "Prog" was not available for download with the Zune pass. I like the freebies, but would much rather you let the Zune pass members get the songs they want. I know that it is not your fault (it's the record lable's) but I just thought I should address this.

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Ricardo Dawkins — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:44:02 GMT

so ...what is this ?

http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/new-zune-arts-video-the-hearts.html

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Ricardo Dawkins — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:43:33 GMT

Calle 13 sucks...they dont know how to sing Reggae like the Panamanians have learned from the Jamaican. We have more than 20 years legacy singing Reggae in Spanish...

yeah, I'm Panamanian.

But, keep moving the marketplace..maybe someday I'll see "Los Cuentos de la Cripta" and "The Creation" collection there.