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Zune firmware already updated

Nov. 15, 2007 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

Well, the Zune has been in stores for less than two days and Microsoft has already shipped a firmware update, bringing the devices from version 2.1 to 2.2. Here's some info from Microsoft:

Version 2.2 (1040). This update enhances device functionality and performance. By default, the wireless feature is turned on. To turn off the wireless feature, select settings, select wireless, and then turn off the wireless feature.

Here's a picture of the Zune update process:


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CCIE 3421
on Nov 15, 2007
Xvid/Divs/AVI support please. MS you're really screwing the pooch on this one. The only reason any of the other players have any relevance anymore is because of that.
kdMo
on Nov 15, 2007
"Been in stores", um that's a joke. There is not a single Zune 80 to be found anywhere in the metro Seattle area. I've tried over 15 different marchants, they never received any. How the hell can they call something a release date and not have product available?
Mum
on Nov 15, 2007
Heh, they actually update the firmware _before_ the product even hits the stores. But I guess it's a good thing in these parts that Microsoft "continuously improves" their great products while Apple "desperately releases patches" to their "unfinished-when-released products". Then again, Apple is Microsoft when it comes to music player market share. I'll "let that speak for itself".
dougxd
on Nov 15, 2007
I guess someone had to dig on Microsoft.....typical ifanboy crap. Go home, "Mum" and have isex with your imac on your own itime.
DRWAM
on Nov 16, 2007
Mum is creating balance as I believe that Mum is quoting this site, where the same event from MS [prompt patch release] was spun in the opposite way, since this site criticized Apple for a prompt patch. It was a very fair comment. I love being a referee:)
Waethorn
on Nov 16, 2007
Here's a question Paul: With the Zune's offering specs that are on par with one another (except for the limitations in the Zune 30), are they all using the same firmware, or at least, unified firmware version numbers? Or do the flash Zune's and the Zune 80 have completely different firmwares?
Waethorn
on Nov 16, 2007
Also, does it improve the jerkiness of the UI?
DRWAM
on Nov 16, 2007
My daughter's Sansa allows me to drag and drop any file as it was a USB flash thumbdrive, [which it can obviously be used as well], and I do not like apps like iTunes, although I am sure that many of you like those types of utilities. Can you load music or videos by dragging and dropping on the Zune? The price is incredible.
cesjr
on Nov 16, 2007
I think that if it weren't for this Zune patch, Paul would have already put up on negative blog post on the fact that Apple has now released its first leopard patch. 10.5.1 Paul is not dumb. It would really have looked bad if he griped about apple's need to put out a quick leopard patch (because it "rushed" the product) and then he didn't say the same thing about the Zune patch. So thanks Microsoft. Putting out a quick patch for the zune (which by the way, is a good thing) saved us from a snarky bit of negative spin from Paul about the leopard patch.
Mum
on Nov 17, 2007
"I guess someone had to dig on Microsoft.....typical ifanboy crap." He he hee, all I did was quote Paul. I hate it when fanboys call themselves journalists. Whatever Paul says, just like all the other Apple/Ms fans/haters he's filling the web with biased BS.

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