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Zune Not Compatible With Windows Vista
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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Dollars to doughnuts that there will be an upgrade for the Zune software that makes it compatable. as soon as you can actually buy Vista.
Please. That might be because the OS is NOT OUT YET, and that it will be added as a supported OS when it is ?
Yes. Of course, Microsoft won't support Zune on his next OS. Thanks Slashdot. That wins the 'biggest troll story ever' award.
Given that the Zune is also not compatible with Microsoft's own "PlaysForSure" music initiave, and its own Urge music store, could this be a trend?
Clearly this is a visionary tactic on behalf of Microsoft, and we can only assume that they have something better and wonderful planned that will blow everything else out of the water. A paradigm shift in musical entertainment, if you will.
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What? Vista's already finished, you can download the damn thing from torrent sites if you want to. It's done, yet the software is (apparently) still incompatible.
You could argue that since Vista's not legally available until the 30th November, there's no need for the Zune software to be compatiable, that'd be OK. But saying it's still in beta is incorrect.
It might be a good idea to support an OS that you have had such a large number of people beta testing for the last several months. While not all of these people probably ran out and purchased a Zune yesterday, a good number may have. How do you think Suzy HomeMaker whose husband installed Vista on their home pc feels now that she can't use the brown brick she just brought home from the local WalMart? The majority of the readers of this forum sit and laugh at the stupidity of this, but the average customer would be extremely upset by something like this and call M$ to say "My Zune is broken!!!! What do I do???" All the while freaking out and getting more upset. Just in general, it's a good idea to make something compatible with the products you plan to release in say the next quarter. Six months would be a stretch, but three I don't think is too much to ask for in the case of compatibility.
Reminds me of back in the late 90s when I was trying to use Microsoft Office products, I did use Word as far back as the late 80s. I kept having compatibility issues with other Microsoft products. I found third party software supported Microsoft formats better than Microsoft did. I finally got sick of it and dropped Microsoft products. Hard to believe a company of that size not supporting their own products. I've worked for large corporations and it generally comes down to departments not talking to each other. There tends to be a lot of internal competition inside the companies. Specifications are often treated as priviledged information even between different departments.
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So a kludge that will automatically switch to compatibility mode if an application matching the zune softwares signature should be quite easy to add to the final Vista candidate. It's not unheard of for MS to addd specific hacks to their OS for compatibility.
Windows does not need the Mac OS X market like the Apple needs Windows users to keep its Ipod successful; they can use them but they can gamble better on that they will end up with that consumber buying a Windows pre-loaded computer.
Whole DRM issue the vast majority of consumers who buy it just do not care. I would try the product first before doubting it; see what you can do with your existing library of mp3's because WMP11 does not seem to interfere with my old collection of MP3s/Videos/etc and I can still copy it wherever like before.
WoW on Linux? Didn't the common sense come out in an article awhile ago that it is better to not risk the unsupported OS; sorry to the minority but they want to keep things simple.
It may not be supported, and therefore, not guaranteed, because the OS is not released, but it should function anyway... the whole purpose of beta and RC releases is to have a period where hardware and software manufacturers can test to make sure that something does work. Software and hardware which should be able to work in the released OS should also function with the RC/beta releases. Unsupported means you can't call MS tech support to ask them to fix your problems, but beta means you can report bugs and incompatibilities so they get fixed before the release.
If the Zune department couldn't be bothered to make their "revolutionary" new product function with the "revolutionary", yet often delayed flagship OS, then that is pathetic.
Well, Microsoft made Vista, and they made Zune, so why should you have to resort to hacks to get it working? Grandma won't know how to run an application in "Windows XP compatibility mode". Think of the poor users; not everyone is a geek.
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Maybe at that point they'll either tweak anything that needs it, or set the installer compatibility flags appropriately.
Considering that Vista is not available for sale, and won't be until January, I fail to see how this is in any way newsworthy. The "fud" tag has been correctly applied to this story.
If a story came out downing Linux because some device isn't compatible with a future and unreleased version of the kernel, everyone would be crying "foul!" from the highest mountain. But since its Microsoft, its okay to have a double standard.
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wow braking (see what I did there) news
Yeah, you mispelled breaking.
I mean really, no matter how you look at it, you mispelled 'breaking'.
to create his own buzz phrase. He has used the term at other times.
It's typical Ballmer. It's lame, not hip, and its vaguely sweaty like.
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So that makes 2 products from M$ that nobody needs to buy? After all there is no reason for either except to funnel more money to M$.
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
Grandma is unlikely to be running Vista. By the time she is likely to be running Vista, MS will have official support for the Zune. If it works fine under compatibility mode, then it's just a case of qualifying it for the OS and publishing the qualification (ie, not long - no real work to be done)
Do these comapnies not have a management hierarchy? They dont have weekly meetings with other departments? The same tired argument is braught up with sony conversations as well. "Why, its not sony's fault - one hand doesnt know what the other is doing!". Sorry but thats a management fuckup and can be blamed on the company that makes it. Its not as if they are even different companies! Like maybe a MS/Creative partnership would make mistakes like this but if its the same damn company there is no excuse save pure M$ lazyness.
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...