Microsoft Abandons Zune

From Appleinsider:

Microsoft's direct effort to challenge Apple's iPod, introduced in 2006 under the Zune brand, is being abandoned after a failure to gain traction in the market.

Too bad, really. One doesn't know how great their stuff is unless you have utter crap to compare it to.

As I said back in July, "Is it just me, or does the word "thud" seem to describe everything in the post-Bill Gates era at Microsoft?"