About Zune.............

As we know, Apple’s ipod has been long dominating the digital media player (DMP) market. And why not; ipod has been far superior in performance and features when compared to its rivals.
But Microsoft is set to change this by coming out with their own media player named zune,
Zune is Microsoft’s music and entertainment platform that provides an end-to-end solution for Connected Entertainment. The Zune experience includes a 30GB digital media player, the Zune Marketplace music service, and a foundation for an online community that will enable music fans to discover new music. Inspired by the vast and varied community of music fans, Zune focuses on helping emerging artists shape the digital canvas. Zune is part of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices division and supports the company’s software-based services vision to help drive innovation in the digital entertainment space.

Here I’ll compare and list a few key differences between zune and ipod. For example I’ll take the 30GB ipod. Since, Microsoft is also offering 30GB storage for zune. Below are the list of features supported by zune and not Ipod.
1) Landscape video
2) Preloaded Audio and video
3) Built in FM tuner
4) Social networking (and)
5) Custom background.
But two major differences are file sharing and Wi-Fi (aka wireless) support. Yes, every zune will have the ability to wirelessly share and play songs, videos and pictures with other zunes.Zune will be able to hold 7,500 songs, 25,000 pictures or 100 hours of video. With all the exciting and promising features, Microsoft will definitely take a big chunk of media player market form apple, but how much only time will tell.