uhhhhhh...I was misquoted.

"We feel very good about that" — What? Spending time and resources on yet another copycat product that underperforms and looks like c***?

When are you going to "get it." People buy stuff that looks cool, works simply. The days of corporate icon forced marketing are gone, and you just don't get it.

Dumb asses.

I have seem one Zune in person. and in theat same time about 5,000 iPods. The tragedy of the Zune is that it took Microsoft 5 years to enter the market, and the "killer" feature (wireless sharing) sucks donk.

however, it does have a nice t*** color.

They probably did sell 1,000,000 to retailers. The real question is how many consumers actually bought into the Zune VS how many are sitting idle on retailers shelves.

Uhhh, if you read the article, you'd see that he WAS misquoted, he's not the one trying to save face. If anything, the author of the article should be embarrassed for bad reporting.

It's like Bob all over again. Hilarious.

What a collection of clueless nurds.

This is the equivalent of having something like 3 kids in your school with a TurdBrick®, while everyone else is getting Zens and iPods.

Or, like the inimitable Charlie Brown once said, "I got a rock."

Yea, MS has a habit of believing that shipped means the same as sold.

duh. microsoft's one true innovation.

Newsflash: smart companies (and even dumb ones) dont release interviews without OK-ing the copy. It's called PR. Why do you think they do interviews??

So - they are either incredibly inept, or the "misquote statement" is an a**-covering lie.

Newsflash: smart companies (and even dumb ones) dont release interviews without OK-ing the copy. It's called PR. Why do you think they do interviews??

So - they are either incredibly inept, or the "misquote statement" is an a**-covering lie.

Again, apparently people who'd rather just sit back and laugh at MS then read what happened. Here's an idea. FOLLOW THE F'ING LINK!

This was a verbal interview, not a written one. Therefore there was NO COPY to OK. And the paper that originally wrote the article MISQUOTED the MS guy. What he said did not match what was printed. And if you don't believe it, why not listen to the podcast of the actual interview.

But, hey, can't expect Apple-idolizers to actually bother to read anything. Basically, you're all as bad as the newspaper, making up stories to fit what you want to believe, so you can blast MS rather then even bothering to spend one minute researching the info.

And what's really amazing is the amount of time the 'ipod is king' folks like to debase and mock the Zune, when they already admit its a c*** player (of course, you have to wonder how many of the 'its c***!' people have actually used it, rather then discerning this from just its color). OK, its c***, we get it. Can't you come up with something better to write about then just "haha, it looks like poo!" and, of course "MS sucks!".

Isn't it funny that a company with a history of marketing and PR blunders has another one? The point is, why doesnt this happen to competently run PR departments? Because they dont let it happen.

And yes, I can come up with something better to write than "it's poo" and "MS sucks"—MS doesnt get it. They don't know how to do interviews, they dont know how to control PR, they dont know how to figure out that design means functionality WITH aesthetic.

By the way, if you would spend one minute "researching the info" you would realize that you know absolutely nothing about how information should be deseminated from a company.