Friday, October 27, 2006
About Me
- Name: David Caulton
A Zune contributor by day, I'm also an avid hiker, biker, and father of three, I also work doing industry analysis and strategy. In previous lives, I've been a backcountry ski patroller, worked on the Windows Media Player, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Team Manager 97, been a researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience, a grad student, and a kid.
12 Comments:
Cool. Is the Brown one a vampire Zune? It has no reflection!
Any chance of seeing any more Zune Marketplace screenshots?
Thanks David. That answers a question I had - can a whole household full of Zunes sync up to the same PC, and Zune Software will keep them and their playlists straight. I'm assuming "yes".
Hey, both Zune icons say 27.7GB. Is that how much space is left available, beyond the pre-loaded content?
- Harvey
http://www.zunerama.com
The zune marketplace has been the most protective software ms has released in ages. There was no beta, nothing. How do you guys know how the software will work with thousands of people accessing it simultaneously. I know, you're software guys, you must know what you're doing. Still, it makes me a little nervous that release is only about 3 weeks away and nothing on the zune marketplace software has trickled out.
sweet. small things like that are awesome to me.
Wow, thanks for this little tidbit David, it's really sweet!
Sportsunit does raise a good point...have you only done internal testing thus far? I mean...I realize that there are thousands of Microsoft employees and it's totally feasable, but...
-Charlie
www.zunecorps.com
One small bit, it looks like the black Zune has reflection while the brown doesn't. Yeah, I know, a small detail but was curious.
I like the "vampire Zune" explanation above for the lack of a reflection
Re: testing. Can't comment on the betas, but I can say we've done through testing. Zune's strategy is a major advantage from this standpoint; with wmp we had to do massive testing of dozens of services and dozens of devices; in this case there's one client, one service, and one device. Massive reduction in bug surface area.
Can I just stake a wild guess that the Zune Marketplace is extremely similar to the underlying code of Windows Media Player (which has had a number of beta tests), and therefore you know it will work?
If I'm right, may I have a t-shirt?
@ Adam,
Your probobly somewhat right...if they've invested all this time in creating all of these platforms, why start from scratch and throw away everything you've learned.
At the same time, look at the Xbox, they completly built it from the ground up because Windows wasn't specialized enough.
-Charlie
www.zunecorps.com/forum
P.S.
If you want a Zune T-shirt, check out the Swag contest we're having!
http://zunecorps.com/?p=75
Someone smarter than me pointed out that a 30GB hard drive (with 30,000,000,000 bytes) looks like a 27.9GB to your computer based on its use of 1024 bytes in a KB, 1024 KB in a MB, etc.
So I withdraw my earlier question and won't quibble about where the other 200MB is.
:)
Check out wikipedia's article on binary prefixes. Enjoy :)
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