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Zune Not Compatible With Windows Vista

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dungeons-but-not-dragons dept.

danimrich writes "According to a report by AppleInsider and a Microsoft support document the software for the Zune player is not compatible with Windows Vista."

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  1. As If... by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    As if you didn't already have enough good reasons to avoid Vista for a long time to come.

    Of course, there are already enough good reasons to avoid Zune, so it's rather a wash.

    --
    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  2. Re:Compatibility by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I have a good guess about the reason of incompatibility, their famous weird, non standard protocol for interacting with mp3/wma players, another plot to keep Mac/Linux users out in the cold.

    You mean like how iPods have to have music uploaded to them by iTunes (or another app that has reverse engineered the process, because Apple certainly ain't telling or helping anyone in the interests of the compatibility that is so important to you)?

  3. Re:Not yet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    no? you can't buy Windows Vista? you can't obtain it in exchange for money (dictionary definition)?

    your attempt at a joke has been outed as lame.

  4. Re:Compatibility by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hey, I did mention that. As it happens, I prefer Devil's Advocate to Troll. Besides which, my PMP of choice is an iPod nano 4GB maintained by Winamp and mlipod. So nyer. :)