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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. Not yet... by Armando_Mcgillicutty · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Not yet... by el_gordo101 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      What if I'm not online while doing the install? Methinks that this is a fairly major "oops" on Microsoft's part. Vista has been under development for how long now and they couldn't get the Zune software to work correctly? Ouch.

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  2. WTF ? by jfclavette · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Come on, feel the sarcasm by User+956 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  4. Welcome, Economist, to our planet. by Kadin2048 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Zune is much more controversial, however, because Microsoft's pre-existing hardware and service partners are left high and dry. "I've never seen a business so blatantly screw its business partners," says Peter Sealey, a professor at Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
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  5. Re:FUD! by jZnat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  6. Another slow news day by davmoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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