Zune gets closer

Another exciting product is coming along and this time it's hardware based.  Zune is Microsoft's take on a music and entertainment device and it's creating quite a stir in those respective industries.

There's talk of a new kind of business model, where users may download media and content for free.  The trade of is advertising: where presumably the record companies will receive prime ad real estate in return for provision of content.  This will presumably be nicely driven by our new advertising engine adCenter as featured on all Windows Live Search.

I think Apple have had it their own way for far too long with the iPod, time for a bit of healthy competition me thinks... :-)

I'm keeping up-to-date with all the latest information on the Zune Insider blog.