Engadget has a priceless review of the Microsoft Zune. Perhaps most notable was a default “guest” mode that tells the user that their new Zune already has another home, which is obviously totally confusing. Hard not to also point out the pressure to setup a “Live ID” and fill-out registration information, as well as the need for a “Zune Tag”. I thought this part was hilarious:
While we were figuring out which tag to use, we were suggested some pretty awesome(ly awful) names:
* TwinightRyan (sp)
* UprightRyan
* GrizzlyRyan
* PraisedCloud
* ScapularWorm and
* HangingCheetah
* PricyRacketeer
* GutlessStudent
* WontedSum
* PeeweeDustDo we LOOK like a scapular worm to you? Don’t answer that.
Looks like the same sort of nonsense I get from spam engines these days. Does Microsoft have a security team working on product release? How could they have let this thing go to market in this state?
Icing on the cake: restart after uninstall. No, sorry, the icing on the cake is the crash our computer took after we hit this, causing our RAID 5 array to crap out and spend a few hours rebuilding
Ouch.