THE DEVICE THE ANCIENTS SPOKE OF IN THEIR PROPHECIES! BEHOLD THE CORPSE OF THE IPOD SLAYER!

Found a refurbished 30GB Microsoft Zune, still sealed in the box with all the accessories PLUS a Zune Media Dock that will allow me to connect the Zune to a TV or stereo system, at a garage sale this morning for $5.

FIVE DOLLARS.

I'm really excited to charge this sucker and see how it works! From everything I heard back in the day, it really could have been an iPod Slayer if it had come from anybody but Microsoft and if it had come out just a year earlier. By the time Microsoft got this device in stores, Apple had already saturated the market with iTunes and made it the industry standard.

(Not unlike how Apple computers are better than PC's but Microsoft has already saturated the market with Windows - CALLING ALLANIS MORRISETT, WE GOTS SOME IRONY HERE!)

My Five-Dollar Zune...

My five-dollar Microsoft Zune that I got a garage sale this morning is as old as Molly (copyright 2000-2006 Microsoft) and running Software Version 1.0...

At first, the modern-day Zune software thought I was trying to do a joke or something. The error message said something like "Uh huh, SUUUUURE that's a Zune. Okay, buddy, I'll connect to your 'Zune'... sure I will." And then it just kind of ignored me and was rude to me.

ME: Hey Zune Software, would you sync this to my Zune please?

ZSW: Pfft, sure, whatever... (wiggles fingers at my USB connection) ...there. It's on your "Zune" now.

ME: No it's not, you just wiggled your fingers at my USB connection!

ZSF: This has gone beyond insulting and is now just sad. Please stop.

...And then it no longer recognized my Zune. Lucky for me it's a MICROSOFT PRODUCT, so I knew how to fix it - UNINSTALL AND REINSTALL. *Now* the newly installed Zune Software is saying "HOLY CRAP THAT'S AN OLD ZUNE AND NOT JUST A CALCULATOR WITH A USB CORD! You're gonna need UPDATES! Lots and lots of slow, tedious UPDATES."

So now it's updating and I have high hopes for this device :)