Bwahahaaa that's really funny lol, I must admit I was fooled :-)
--- Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > Microsoft officially confirmed on Friday that it is working on adding > Vorbis and FLAC support on its music and entertainment "project" > dubbed Zune, which includes hardware and software products that offer > users on-the-go access to music and entertainment. > > "Under the Zune brand, we will deliver Vorbis and FLAC support on our > family of hardware and software products, the first of which will be > available this year through a Zune firmware update," said Chris > Stephenson, general manager of marketing for Microsoft, in a prepared > statement. "We see a great opportunity to bring together technology > and community to allow consumers to explore and discover music > together, and we think offering support for better and popular formats > is part of that goal." > > Zune marketing director Jason Reindorp said the company plans to issue > the firmware update sometime in the middle of next month. Reindorp > said the downloadable update will also offer other performance > improvements, but no major feature updates to the player, which > debuted in November. > > "In mid-May we will release a firmware update which will address > Vorbis and FLAC support, improving overall software reliability and > efficiency," he said in an e-mail to CNET News.com. > > Reindorp said the Zune held its No. 2 spot in hard drive-based digital > music players in January, citing NPD numbers that give the company 9.9 > percent of that market. The company still trails Apple's iPod in the > hard drive-based music area and does not yet have a flash-based device > to compete with the iPod Nano or Shuffle. > > ... > > ... > > ... > > ... > > ... > > Oh, by the way, April Fools! Did I mention that already? XIPH DOES > NOT ENDORSE THE ZUNE IN ANY WAY. > _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac
