Aha! We were wondering how Microsoft came up with the name "Zune," and now maybe we know? Could they have been buzzed on that beer in the fridge in Kirkland? That's where the Mobile and Imbedded Devices Experience (MEDX) design center is located, and where, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, engineers "have fun" by playing shoot-em-up with Nerf guns in their open offices, and yep, drink beer.
The employees in MEDX are ultra-mobile; none have land lines (using their cell phones, instead), everything rolls on the concrete floors, and even the monitors swivel. The beer, supposedly, is saved for Friday afternoons, when the teams play Xbox and ...
Xbox and beer? No wonder those operating expenses are so high.
In other "Microsoft is oh-so-wrong" news today, ValleyWag is reporting that a she-devil is advertising for Microsoft's VisualSourceSafe software! Yes, it's really just a badly-positioned repeating background, but boy, is that image eery.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
9-06-2006 @ 12:10PM
Harvey Chute said...
Aaaah... I KNEW that alcohol had to be involved somehow in the selection of the "Zune" name. LOL.
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11-29-2006 @ 9:06PM
ciberscriber said...
Another possibility is that the name Zune is the result of compounding the Creative Labs Zen name with the Apple iTune name, i.e., Zen + iTune = Zune.
11-29-2006 @ 4:45PM
ciberscriber said...
Another possibility is that the name Zune is the result of compounding the Creative Labs Zen name with the Apple iTune name, i.e., Zen + iTune = Zune.