I bought a Zune in 2020.

[sanguinesomnambulist]

I had my second gen Zune with me at work one day and someone walked in with his, and he sent me some songs. It was the greatest day of Microsoft's life.

[davenporttj]

I owned a zune and the ONLY thing that I miss about it was being able to load offensive tracks from my zune onto the display ones at best buy and other electronics stores

[Mr.Trololo]

quick fact
groove music is called: microsoft Zune Music in the windows files

[Slash]

Steve Balmer was the best thing to have ever happened to Microsoft,
guy broke an ankle on stage and the cocaine in his nose was like "keep going"

[popifrex]

This reminds me of what happened to Windows Phones. As soon as they were getting a bit of traction Microsoft goes like "yea nah this isn't an instant boom we're done"

[aqua_whale]

“You can wirelessly send content, we’re gonna call it sharting”

[t.l.]

When you realize that this Microsoft-made product doesn't support the .wav format, a format developed by Microsoft

[onedowntogo]

It really says something about MS's opinion on the Zune that they completely ejected it from their ecosystem, when their philosophy everywhere else is compatibility at all costs. You can still access the old menu for setting up a Dial-Up internet connection in modern versions of Windows. You still *can't* name files things like CON, PRN, AUX, or NUL because **MS-DOS** used those filenames to output data to certain software or peripherals (like a printer). Every new version of Windows is built on the zombified corpse of the last, leaving behind all of the old protocols JUST IN CASE something old and antiquated comes along and expects things to work a certain way.

And then there's Zune which can't even run it's management software anymore.

[toozigooti]

I loved my Zune. Thought it was heaps better than my friends iPods. Showing them Halo 3 ViDocs from my Zune when they couldn't was great.

[CocoTheMii]

That clip of Steve Ballmer absolutely losing his shit with the "Actual CEO of Microsoft" caption was perfect

[patrickloftis]

"That is..." please say egg bag, please say egg bag, "A quality egg bag." Success.

[maxweII_demon]

"rushed out the door in time for christams"
the bane of any developers existence

[NotMac]

That Steve Ballmer “Developers, developers, developers” clip will forever be burned into my brain because i was curious what the default link on youtube to mp3 led to

[pyro_bites]

Dankpods: “This is the worst Microsoft failure”
Microsoft Kin: *b o n j o u r*

[BakedPotonion]

"Welcome to the social" sounds more like a phrase that would be slapped on some sort of Chinese bootleg and not a cool catchphrase that would get me all hyped up.. this is not epic.

[Dorraj]

I will never be able to get over them calling the music sharing feature "Squirting"

Who at Micro$oft thought that was a good idea...?

[Codeslamer]

'Aged like a fine milk' is a sentance I didn't know I needed

[homestar]

My dad used to work for Microsoft, and when the smaller Zune's came out (the one at the end of the video) he got one each for my brother and I. I did really enjoy them. The 'squirting' feature was cool, but yeah, sucked that I would have to plug into my brothers computer to get the mp3 if I liked it, but still cool.
The BIGGEST problem with them.. at least with mine, was it would just freeze. Completely. Like in the middle of a song. The song and playlist would keep going. Buttons didn't work. No force restart. Not even the screen would turn off. And I would have to wait for the battery to die, so I could charge it and use it again. Did it like once a week.
So dad got us iPods haha.

[metaldragz]

When the zune ui looks like the windows 8 ui

It feels like a prediction of windows 8.

[HarmonicVector]

The Zune 80 actually had a killer DAC, which is why it sounded really good. I can see this thing coming back as a Hi-Fi Walkman competitor.