Microsoft Zune

Microsoft is launching its new Zune player soon. but will it work?

Given that you can share music which others can listen to for 3 days or 3 plays I'm assuming that the Zune player is full of DRM. Nice.

If this means that everyone is going to struggle copying music around between home PC and device and laptop etc. as people tend to have multiple machines nowadays then I doubt it's going to go very far.

Zune can play non DRM wma files and the like, but to make it a success it must sell these unprotected files in its store, or you'll pay your money and then be stuck on one device.

For me, I think I'll stick with a CD; unless of course I'm pleasantly surprised at the lack of DRM, but I doubt that somehow.