by Michael Cooney

Senior Editor

Microsoft already hosing faithful over Zune

Opinion

Nov 7, 20061 min

Say you’re faithful to Microsoft (God knows why).

You’ve purchased music from its MSN Music site (God knows why) and you’re itching (God knows why) to buy a Zune when it debuts on Nov. 14.

Everything’s cool, right?

Um, well…

BBC News reports that any music purchased from MSN will not play on Zune.

Via BBC News

Enterprise Applications

by Michael Cooney

Senior Editor

Michael is a senior editor with Network World focused on deciphering the strategies of many core high-tech vendors such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE and IBM. Michael has been writing about the industry for more than 33 years and has won coverage awards from ASBPE and FOLIO. He has a BA in Journalism and Technical Writing Certificate from The Pennsylvania State University.

He can be reached at michael_cooney@foundryco.com.

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