“By coincidence i got my hands early on an Microsoft Zune, bought as a regular customer at BestBuy in Union City Landing shopping centre. They dont seem to care that the release day is next tuesday. They werent displayed in the store itself but i asked a salesmen if i could pre order a Zune. Then he told me they were already in and he could sell one to me. And so he did,” FLX-Tech.net reports. “Can someone explain me why it says ‘Hello from Seattle’ on the back?
FLX-Tech.net begain to install Microsoft’s Zune software. What happened next fails to elicit from us even a nano bit of surprise:
FLX-Tech.net reports, “And this is where i leave you right now. The Zune already drawn its first blood; me. I can’t install it for some reason, and i tried everything. If you have any suggestions or ideas, please leave a comment.”
Full article, with photos of FLX-Tech’s brown Zune, here.
Predictably, FLX-Tech.net has been zuned. We do have an obvious suggestion/idea: Return that piece of zune and go get an iPod and install iTunes instead. Duh.
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Looks like the model in the photo is screaming in pain at the mere thought of trying to install the software for it.
Why do they look like they’re having bad public sex in that screenshot?
It is from the King of authorization. It might be phoning home and finding out it’s not supposed to exist yet!
the anguished look on the girl’s face on the error screen says it all.
Anyone else think that looks like M$ is installing p0rn?
You’re welcome.
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-c
MW: ‘soon’ (rhymes with Zune and that stands for poo)
Looks like bad LESBIAN sex to boot!
(Come to think of it, I don’t think there’s any such thing as “bad” lesbian sex.)
” If you have any suggestions or ideas, please leave a comment.”
Flush it.
Is MS smart enough to have put code in its Zune installer to prevent it from being installed prior to release date? My guess: NO!
Or else it look as though they’ve all just been shot . . . by the guy in the tower . . . why it’s . . . it’s . . . it’s BALLMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gee what a shock. Not. If it looks like sh*t and it smells like sh*t, then it must be sh*t.
I told you, TT, I’m not interested. Now stop calling me.
-c
MW: ‘course’ (…might want to take one in Cultural Diversity)
Caption contest, anyone?
“Don’t squirt on my face!”
Towertone,
I don’t have a problem with lesbians scuking your Hampton.
They might have problems finding it though….
“Is that his penis?”
“I don’t know – it looks like a penis, but much, much smaller…”
MDN word: course – as in ‘please exscuse my course language.’
No, no, get that damn Zune away from me!
Yeah, what’s with that image. If the software hasn’t successfully been installed, then that image has to be something supplied by Redmond. Bizarre to say the least.
Holy Crap… he bought the brown one???????
AHHHH AAHHH.. who shoved a Zune in my head??!! I cant get it ouT!
Geniune Microsoft!
Woahhoo! NOOOO! the zune has truned me into Keanu reeves.
Anyone taking bets that installing the Zune software will disable iTunes if it’s already installed?
And so the problems officially begin…
Peace.
Zune you will be able to squirt toxic gas from your little brown box and infect another little brown box. And Zune that little brown box will squirt another and another and another and you will feel right at home in your Windows world.
From the log, it looks like it could be an error setting up the System Restore data. Which is actually rather responsible of MS. No trail of bread crumbs = no installation.
I emailed him, said he was ZWND! (And you can quote me)
MW “better”, as in an iPod would be better