“groovy mother...”

Ouch. I’m not sure Microsoft will be happy that their launch-day feature on CNN features incredulent hosts (“Who do they think is going to buy this?”), one of whom ends the segment raving about her new teeny iPod Shuffle.

Wow. Microsoft make it clear that, however rushed, buggy and miserably unready the Zune software may be, the user experience design was always half-assed.

Microsoft’s “you must buy points in $5 increments” makes sense if you consider credit-card transaction costs (I’m sure Apple loses money if you only buy one 99 cent song at a time — that’s why they batch up your transactions), but the user experience of “1.25 cents per point” is ridiculous, and probably going to bite MS.

Are you kidding me?! Microsoft didn’t register zune.com before announcing their MP3 player?! Wonder how that will work out for them.

“You can actually send a file to another Zune user, but it will only be playable three times or stored for three days, whichever comes first.” Well, that’s worth the battery drain of 802.11 networking.

John Gruber’s Magic 8 Ball does its work on Zune.

Microsoft finally confess to the existence of their “Zune” player. Nothing much announced yet; just a teaser site with a man stroking a bunny.