Tonight I've been messing around with this new open-source cross-platform rebuild of the Zune app, and it's working great on my MacBook! It's got built-in encoding to WMA Lossless (a format literally nobody but Zune freaks care about) and it's tackled my FLAC and ALAC files with no complaints.

#zune

https://github.com/magicisinthehole/xune-releases

Shout out to the time #Microsoft invented a genuinely cool peer-to-peer song sharing feature for the #Zune

and then unironically, with a straight face, called it “squirting”

As in “hey [your name], squirt me that hot new song you like”

Continuing Microsoft’s long tradition, which lives to this day, of using a dart board of the worst possible words to name its products and features, like, 95% of the time

These Sinofsky/Epstein emails
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02723755.pdf

are fun, watching a thieving motherfucker get $14M (not 20) severance, but what makes me laugh?

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02572388.pdf

Steve Ballmer, "Sent from my Windows phone". Oh shit even you fuckers at the top had to carry one? I almost feel pity. Then I remember it's Sweaty Steve and lose my pity.

"The whole project will be labeled "Zune" and this will be a broad failure." —Sinofsky
HA HA HA HA ah Zune.

#microsoft #shitcolored #zune #mssurface