Archive for October 2nd, 2007
Microsoft announces new Zunes
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Microsoft announced their new, updated Zune 
portable media players today, with plans to ship sometime in November. They appear to be a little more iPod-y now than they were in their first iteration, but still look like Zunes. They showed a $149, 4 gig version and a $199, 8 gig model, both of which use flash memory, and an $249, 80 gig version that uses a hard drive. All will be available in a few different colors (the 80GB initially only in black).
There have been some fairly positive changes with the hardware and controls (the new flick-control pad looks pretty cool), as well as with the underlying firmware and desktop software. There are also still a few things missing… Microsoft is also supporting DRM-free music now, to an extent.
More info about the new Zunes should be or here or here or here or here or, well, everywhere.
(Image from Microsoft)
Adobe announces Thermo
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
It appears quite similar, at a glance, to what Microsoft is already doing with XAML/Expression/Silverlight/etc, allowing you to develop widgets graphically and turn them into components you can wire up and code against.
Note: it’s merely been announced at this point, not released in demo/trial form (so far)…
More info here.
(Image from Adobe)
