Friend of Zune, Patrick Hefner is hosting a Zune meetup in Franklin, TN at the Cool Springs Galleria in the food court on Sept 19th. Swing by to say hello to Patrick, get some swag and get a demo of Zune HD! For more info or to RSVP send mail to zunersmeetup...

Good evening. Quick update from the front lines. Deployment is approaching the final stages but we still have some more tasks to complete. At this point it looks like the service will be going live sometime after midnight. Stay tuned.

Good afternoon Zune nation! Just a quick note that we are ramping up a new Twitter feed for Zune, appropriately named @Zune . Yes, it has been lingering out there for a bit but we cleaned it up and my colleague Paul will be manning the steering wheel...

Today the Seattle Sounders FC visited the Microsoft campus to get some practice and show off their skills. I almost got hit in the face with a soccer ball twice watching Kasey Keller tend goal. I remember that feeling from playing pee wee soccer, only...

On Tuesday, June 16th from 12:01 AM PST for up to 24 hours, the Zune service will be offline for maintenance. As a result, the Zune Social, the forums on Zune.net, and all of Zune Marketplace will be offline. As you may have heard the Zune and Xbox systems...

For all you NPR listeners out there I hope you caught a great piece on All Things Considered last night titled, A Euology for the Boombox . I was listening on my bus ride home and was dragged down memory lane thinking of my old boom box, standing it on...

This morning I was asked by Zune friend @abarcelos via Twitter for some music recommendations. I have my own opinions and those of you following me know what those are. So I thought I would turn to our resident music experts that work here in Zune HQ...