New Zune Software Released
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009This morning, Microsoft released the long-awaited Version 4.0 of their Zune software. Most of the updates are for the new Zune HD, but a lot of the software updates are applicable to the older Zunes. You can download the software at http://www.zune.net
This release also enables the Apps in the Marketplace, and to be frank, it’s quite the disappointment. First, the apps are only for the Zune HD, which is somewhat understandable, but it would be nice if they would do something with all the old apps that were floating around with the XNA framework. The big disappointment with the marketplace is the lack of apps. There are a few games, and 2, yes TWO, standard applications. There’s not even a basic app for Facebook or Twitter. I would have expected that there would be a decent amount of applications out at launch, but there weren’t.
Now, according to Microsoft, there a lot of applications in development, and they’ll be out “soon”, which is great, but it would have been nice to have them ready at launch.