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Zune Team Getting Amnesty for iPod Use

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ooooh-free-ipods dept.

MsManhattan writes "The Zune development team at Microsoft is apparently offering amnesty to employees who give up their iPods in favor of using the Zune MP3 player. An MSNBC employee has posted a photo on Flickr of the company's 'iPod Amnesty Bin,' which sports an image of a bitten green apple and the words 'Bite me.' Whether it's to be taken seriously or is a joke to boost employee morale is anyone's guess, and naturally no one at Microsoft was available for comment. From what can be seen in the photo, only a few early-model iPods have been deposited."

2 of 303 comments (clear)

  1. Re:new ad campaign ineffective, misses point by rucs_hack · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well some people might buy one based on the adverts, but they likely wouldn't buy again.

    Especially given microsofts constant habit of forcing uupgrades.

    Apple do constant upgrades too, but my trusty old generation 3 iPod is still going strong in linux via Amarok. It works with the latest iTunes software too, but that's frankly not a very good peice of software, so I don't use it.

  2. Re:In other news by El_Smack · · Score: 4, Informative

    >>> Just because someone says the word interesting, doesn't make them interesting.
    >> Interesting...
    >Funny how that works out.

    Thank you for the Informative post.

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