#3, mooresa56 is right.... the guy is toast... he dared offer a positive review of a Microsoft product... in a place where it is fashionable, popular and chic to do otherwise... mooresa56 was just sharing a bit of rye humor.
The CNET reporter has reason to be excited - Zune is indeed very different and best reflects how even devices will become more democratic - as social networking influences technology.
Microsoft is also quite correct in predicting that a hybrid model will be the norm for modern networks - regardless of size. If you recall many of my posts from 2004, when articles offered an opportunity to comment on how IE for example, would evolve as a spring-board into very different types of experiences - that it was being developed to leverage POX, and other forms of asynchronous client/server communications.... - I recommend people look much more deeply at what it and the balance of the platform are designed to do and support.
The Zune is a great example of that - and as much.... designed to capture the intelligence that Microsoft will need to design software and tools to take advantage of what the Net has to offer.
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