In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Guy Fawkes
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on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:02:54 +0100
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> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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>> "Win a Zune" If your homepage is msn.com
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>> | How badly does Microsoft want to promote the Zune? My fellow
>> | tippsters at Neowin.net found that Microsoft has decided that
>> | every user who sets MSN as their home page will be entered to
>> | win one of 50 Zunes.
>> `----
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> What the hell is Zune anyway? And who cares?!! No one.
It's a small portable audio-carrying device, boiled down
to the essentials. It might have video (I'd have to look).
It certainly has DRM and some strange quirks.
And I can't say I care all that much. ;-)
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> I'm almost perpetually amazed at the suckers that tow the Microsoft line.
> Toshiba got suckered into producing Zunes (whatever they are) and they will
> bear the brunt of the pain if it fails (which it almost surely will). But
> Microsoft itself NEVER gets burned since it doesn't produce the devices.
> Other people get burned for its failures.
>
> Same thing happened with Pen Tablet PC's. Some companies got seriously
> burned but Microsoft got away unscathed. I wonder when people will wake up
> and smell the coffee and not start producing everything it tells them. If
> they want to peddle Zunes, let them make the damned things THEMSELVES.
>
Define "themselves". This is where it gets a bit
complicated. I frankly don't know how much innate
manufacturing capability Microsoft has. Of course,
if they acquire a company, they might be able to
leverage that.
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