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Finally, the Zune arrives! It's out of the gates! It's running... and running... and tripping, and plowing face-down into the dirt. Watch the comedy unfold: 

Microsoft cripples its music player

"...the Zune isn't about users turning each other on to music they like. Instead, it's about users doing the music industry's marketing on its behalf." Do you want to spend your money to become an unpaid music industry marketer?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/silverman/4350311.html

Microsoft's Zune Only Looks Simple

"Beyond the arrogance of requiring Microsoft's own "money," the Zune Marketplace also shows sloppy workmanship."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/18/AR200611...

3rd degree

Are duped shoppers flocking back to stores to return Zunes?
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/diary/julie/5th_degree

Microsoft, Wake Up and Smell Defeat

Performance adding comedy atop Microsoft's comedy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ENLm0JsQw

The Joy of Tech

Did Microsoft think it would sneak Zune past Nitrozac and Shaggy? Not likely to happen.
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/891.html

Zune Fails to Import All Music Files

Zune's only bad at one thing. Unfortunately, it's music.
http://aranworld.com/article/104/zune-fails-to-import-all-music-files

Getting Zuned

"...the Zune will be an expensive failure for Microsoft because consumers aren't stupid." Michael Robertson coins "getting zuned". You don't want toget zuned.
http://www.michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=219

Zune MP3 players' opening salvo a dud

"...an oversight... had resulted in the store not getting Zunes... No apparent harm was done though, said the manager, because no shoppers came asking about Zunes." The unkindest cut ever.
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061115-055514-9496r

Zune Is No Apple, It's A Lemon

"The busy San Francisco Virgin store employees did not take notice of the Zune players because they had only sold two the entire day."
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20061115ZuneIsNoAppleIt...

Zune Swoon

Dvorak: "If anything is doomed to failure, it is the Microsoft Zune."
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2059039,00.asp

Zune review

"But this buying season if the question is iPod, we're afraid the answer sure isn't Zune."
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/zune-review/

Installing the Zune... sucked

Engadget loves gadgets – except one. "We really wanted to give the Zune the benefit of the doubt... It sucks."
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/13/installing-the-zune-sucked/

It's true: The Zune is incompatible with Vista

That's right: Microsoft's left foot doesn't know what its other left foot is doing.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=104

Zune Marketplace's Absurd Pricing Scheme

Microsoft thinks you're too dumb to notice. You're not.
http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/zune-marketplaces...

Microsoft's Latest Marketing Scheme: Pinching Pennies Off the Customer

"Maybe Microsoft intends Zune Marketplace to be a tax on people who like marketing tricks." Are you one of those people?
http://ce.seekingalpha.com/article/17895

CNN ridicules Microsoft’s Zune while gushing over Apple’s new iPod shuffle

"It's clunky, it's clunky." (Zune) "Now that's the thing, that's the thing..." (iPod)
http://www.ipoddailynews.com/index.php/ipoddailynews/comments/11631/

Whats bad with the Zune list

"So the question is..why should anyone buy a zune player ?" Nobody knows.
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=255327#255327

Microsoft takes on iPod

"Zune software and the Zune Marketplace are more Kazakhstan than Cupertino." Ouch! Fortune rips the Zune.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/09/technology/pluggedin_lewis_zune.fortune/...

Ten More Myths of Zune

"Did Microsoft run out of money developing this thing, or does it think a cheap looking product would make a great first impression?"
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/AFB155D7-1DDB-41E2-90B2-35EC1763E...

A rude awakening for Zune

"Forget brown. The true color of the Zune is black-and-blue."
http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6134376.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20...

Microsoft, Zune & Universal: The 1992 Game Plan

"Once again, in the consumer marketplace, MS is clearly in over their heads because they design everything backwards."
http://metroxing.blogspot.com/2006/11/microsoft-zune-universal-1992-game...

Zune vs. iPod, round 1: Holiday shoppers

"The big splash Microsoft is determined to make in the digital music player market this holiday may end up being a flop." Sounds more like Zune vs music fans.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/07/technology/zune/index.htm?postversion=2006110813 

But lest you think we're terribly biased, let us close with a positive piece:

Why I Love the Zune

"I love the introduction of any device that reinforces the point that things just work better when made by Apple." (Oh. Cancel the positive.)
http://www.renegrub.com/2006/11/15/why-i-love-the-zune/