Zune Not Compatible With Windows Vista

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Zune Not Compatible With Windows Vista 319

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:13PM 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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That's ok... (Score:5, Funny)

by Nefarious Wheel ( 628136 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:15PM (#16859042) Journal

...because I'm not compatible with Vista either.

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Well... (Score:5, Funny)

by AltGrendel ( 175092 ) writes: <ag-slashdot.exit0@us> on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:16PM (#16859058) Homepage

Looks like Vista will be a Zune killer app.
Yes, i know that Vista is an OS, not an app.

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wow, comes with soft porn included. (Score:5, Funny)

by yagu ( 721525 ) * writes: <{yayagu} {at} {gmail.com}> on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:17PM (#16859086) Journal

Disclaimer from the article:
And for those wondering, the splash screen of three women in distress isn't our contributor's stab at a knee-slapper.

Cool, Zune comes with it's own soft porn.
All seriousness aside, I think I'd already heard Zune wouldn't work with Vista immediately. Is that really a big show stopper? I'm guessing they've laid plans to have it ready to go by the time the OEMs are rolling out Vista-installed machines. An embarrassment perhaps, but Microsoft has many bigger and better gaffes to be proud of (say Clippy, and Microsoft Bob!).
Oh, and back to the soft porn, it must have been approved by the Ballmer himself, just look at the quote from his quoted Q&A session from Business Week in the article:

"I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's [an] experience," he said.

I think Steve's been spending a little too much time on-line.

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all's not lost (Score:2, Funny)

by gregtron ( 1009171 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:17PM (#16859096)

You can still use the Zune! You'll never want for DRM restrictions again!

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Re:That's ok... (Score:2, Funny)

by StikyPad ( 445176 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:23PM (#16859238) Homepage

Zune zune zune!

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Re:WTF ? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:23PM (#16859252)

Those Zune developers really should have talked to Microsoft when writing their software. I'm sure Microsoft would have given them some sort of corporate discount on a software development kit.

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Re:As If... (Score:5, Funny)

by diersing ( 679767 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:23PM (#16859254)

BG - OK guys, are we ready for the Zune launch?
Lackey - yes sir
BG - and we completed ALL of our testing?
Lackey - yes sir
BG - make it so
~~~~ 24 hours later ~~~~
BG - WTF guys, you assured me we tested it!!
Lackey - we did, but we test against, you know, released systems people are using
BG - ...
Lackey - can we work it into Vista SP1?
BG - we'll have to, push back SP1 release to 4Q 2009

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Re:Not yet... (Score:5, Funny)

by Andy_R ( 114137 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:25PM (#16859292) Homepage Journal

You'll never be able to actually buy Vista, just a very limited licence to run it.

Not that anybody sane would want to...

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Re:That's ok... (Score:5, Funny)

by Salvance ( 1014001 ) * writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:26PM (#16859302) Homepage Journal

Hehe ... apparently Steve Ballmer isn't compatible with Zune: "I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's [an] experience". Does he even know how the Zune works? There should be a rule against putting the word 'Squirt' in a sentence with Steve Ballmer ... ugh, nasty.

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Compatible with Vista (Score:5, Funny)

by kaoshin ( 110328 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:26PM (#16859326)

By the time Vista is released, the only things compatible with it will be in museums.

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Steve Balmer wants to squirt you his pictures??? (Score:5, Funny)

by Jabrwock ( 985861 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:32PM (#16859422) Homepage

"I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's [an] experience," he said.

I'll bet it is. I think I'll pass though. I don't want Steve Balmer squirting things at me.

Honestly, what strange part of his brain thinks that even SOUNDS right?

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Re:Come on, feel the sarcasm... for Sure (TM)? (Score:5, Funny)

by ksheff ( 2406 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:36PM (#16859486) Homepage

I guess this person hasn't been following MSFT very long.

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Re:That's ok... (Score:5, Funny)

by rucs_hack ( 784150 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:36PM (#16859494)

steve ballmer squirting at me?

Thanks for that mental image :-(

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Is that him wanting to be someone else? (Score:5, Funny)

by remmelt ( 837671 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:37PM (#16859514) Homepage

I always wondered if that was the sound of Steve Balmer wanting to be someone else... You know the one. He's also called Steve.

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Re:That's ok... (Score:3, Funny)

by dolson ( 634094 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:44PM (#16859634) Homepage Journal

Oh man, I hope they hire the Zoom-Zoom kid that Mazda did!

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Discussion (Score:2, Funny)

by Daemonstar ( 84116 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:47PM (#16859680)

What I think is funny is the discussion about the article on the article's site is not about Vista and the Zune, but whether Oriental or Asian is correct (or offensive) to describe the girls in the picture. :P

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Re:That's ok... (Score:5, Funny)

by bobdotorg ( 598873 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:48PM (#16859706)

Hehe ... apparently Steve Ballmer isn't compatible with Zune: "I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's [an] experience". Does he even know how the Zune works? There should be a rule against putting the word 'Squirt' in a sentence with Steve Ballmer ... ugh, nasty.

In other news, Balmer's secretary's Zune was RMA'd today when a chair was forcefully squirted at it.

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Dirty old man! (Score:3, Funny)

by bstempi ( 844043 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:49PM (#16859730)

FTA:

In a Q&A session with BusinessWeek last month, Ballmer offered similar sentiments on the wireless capabilities of his company's new digital media player.
"I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's [an] experience," he said.

Am I the only one that finds Ballmer's quest to "squirt" me his kid...um...disturbing?

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Going after Apple... (Score:3, Funny)

by Threni ( 635302 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @05:52PM (#16859772)

"But boss - you said copy Apple, and Apple made sure their expensive little box didn't work on Microsoft Operating Systems..."

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Squirt You (Score:5, Funny)

by Foofoobar ( 318279 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @06:04PM (#16860002)

I hope he isn't going to squirt all over the developers, developers, developers, developers.

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Re:As If... (Score:3, Funny)

by Foofoobar ( 318279 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @06:06PM (#16860044)

Of course, there are already enough good reasons to avoid Zune, so it's rather a wash.
I'd wash too with all the 'squirting' Steve Ballmer is doing. YECH!

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Re:wow, comes with soft porn included. (Score:4, Funny)

by uradu ( 10768 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @06:09PM (#16860102)

>> And for those wondering, the splash screen of three women in distress isn't our contributor's stab at a knee-slapper.

I'm not so sure they're in distress--it looks like the one on top is squirting the one on the bottom...something.

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Re:wow, comes with soft porn included. (Score:2, Funny)

by Bugs42 ( 788576 ) writes: <[superjambob] [at] [gmail.com]> on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @06:17PM (#16860238)

Funny... first we learn the internet is only 1% porn, now we learn that it's packaged with the Zune. Perhaps MS is trying to up the percentage?

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Re:That's ok... (Score:2, Funny)

by nschubach ( 922175 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @06:24PM (#16860330) Journal

No thanks, the 1% porn content of the internet is already keeping those tubes fully "squirted".

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Re:That's ok... (Score:5, Funny)

by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @06:27PM (#16860402)

"I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation."

That's such an odd choice of words, and really sounds forced - I'll bet this isn't random. I bet Microsoft has been trying to come up with a catchy term for the wireless sharing, in the hopes it'll make Zune seem more trendy. But c'mon - "squirt"? How much did they pay a marketing team to come up with that?

Or am I just behind the curve? Is this a case of "Duh! We've all figured that out already!"?

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Re:Is that him wanting to be someone else? (Score:5, Funny)

by tverbeek ( 457094 ) * writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @06:34PM (#16860562) Homepage

Ballmer wants to be Steve Irwin?

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Furthermore... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @06:35PM (#16860570)

Who really considers looking at pictures of someone else's kid or vacation to be an entertainment experience? Now sending goatse wirelessly to all nearby Zunes - there's an entertainment experience! It could be even more entertaining to repeat such a transmission several times during the course of an overseas flight.

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Re:FUD! (Score:5, Funny)

by jbrader ( 697703 ) writes: <stillnotpynchon@gmail.com> on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @06:48PM (#16860808)

A small but hardcore minority are actually dorks.

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Re:Is that him wanting to be someone else? (Score:5, Funny)

by McFadden ( 809368 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @07:00PM (#16861032)

Ahh - you're clearly referring to Steve Dobbs,the acclaimed horticulturalist. Wow! I never would have guessed.

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Re:That's ok... (Score:3, Funny)

by 7Prime ( 871679 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @07:07PM (#16861148) Homepage Journal

Same marketting team that came up with the name "Urge", as in "I'm currently doing an Urge Squirt". This is from marketting commity "C", who are just nasty and should vengence be set upon them by His wrath. Rumor has it that they also came up with "Long Horn" but someone in the PR department screwed up and accidently condensed it into one word.

Marketting commity "B" came up with "Zune" and "Vista". Beware the power of conservative old foggies with thesauruses!

Marketting commity "A" have largely been ignored, and are thinking of going to work for Apple or Nintendo.

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Re:Is that him wanting to be someone else? (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Freak ( 16973 ) writes: <anonymousfreak@nOspam.icloud.com> on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @07:15PM (#16861248) Journal

Ah, yes...

The king of all Geeks.

Woz [woz.org].

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Re:Steve Balmer wants to squirt you his pictures?? (Score:5, Funny)

by dreamlax ( 981973 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @07:24PM (#16861382)

Honestly, what strange part of his brain thinks that even SOUNDS right?

Most probably the squirting part.

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Re:Steve Balmer wants to squirt you his pictures?? (Score:4, Funny)

by Tibor the Hun ( 143056 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @08:15PM (#16862136)

Honestly, what strange part of his brain thinks that even SOUNDS right?

The big, sweaty part that keeps yelling at the little part that only wants to read a book.

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Re:That's ok... (Score:5, Funny)

by Tibor the Hun ( 143056 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @08:22PM (#16862224)

I know, if I was to say that i've got the Urge, and I'd like to squirt you the picture of my kids, I'd prolly get arrested. But if he says it, MSFT shares jump up 7.5%.

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Re:That's ok... (Score:4, Funny)

by db32 ( 862117 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @08:43PM (#16862466) Journal

This is the same team that gave us Windows CEMENT XP, the Windows Cement Experience, turning PCs into paperweights one desktop at a time. Let us not also forget WinCE because when its what you will do when you find out your latest project must run on it.

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Re:That's ok... (Score:3, Funny)

by Scarletdown ( 886459 ) writes: on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @11:21PM (#16863910) Journal

This is the same team that gave us Windows CEMENT XP

Is this [earthlink.net] the same Windows CEMeNT you are referring to?

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Re:That's ok... (Score:3, Funny)

by chrish ( 4714 ) writes: on Thursday November 16, 2006 @09:20AM (#16868210) Homepage

The word you're looking for is "Schadenfreude"...

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Is that him wanting to be someone else? (Score:5, Funny)

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Dirty old man! (Score:3, Funny)

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