New software for the Zune for both the desktop and the device was released today.

You can download it, but the Zune desktop software should do that for you. Anyway, it looks like some new features are managing your Zune identity and a new search box on the desktop.

And on the device, there’s games, a clock, tagging a song you hear using the FM radio  as well as… purchasing media wirelessly! Awesome. Now if only I could get the wireless to work on my Zune…

According to this other Mike Hall, Vista isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Apparently it’s too difficult to understand, especially that darn Windows logo:

It’s completely alien to the user until they get used to it. It’s silly little things like where you used to have the Start menu — it’s now a Windows graphic which is harder to explain on a support helpline.

Yeah, training people to click on the logo instead of the "Start" text will take several hundred man hours. Other companies have had "problems" too:

Transfer of files is actually slower than in previous versions

And even though much of that problem has been addressed in SP1, we won’t mention that.

Putting a Vista machine on a desk costs more money

Wait a second here… so you’re telling me that the newest, up-to-date OS with all the new features and better security takes better hardware to run? Ok, wait… slow down… It does more AND it needs more RAM and proc speed? Wait wait… So you’re saying I don’t get all that for free. Ok, you’re still going too fast for me…

What people love to forget is that the same things were said when XP came out. "Why go with XP? We love Windows 2000!" XP was the new, glitzy OS with all the bells and whistles. There were compatibility problems. It took more RAM and beefier processors. But that’s how this game works. But people just love to blame Vista. They want to blame Vista.

What’s worse is that they don’t even want to try it out first, because if they did, they’d probably like it.