Ah, shipping is nice.

We're finally out the door at last. People can go buy a Zune. We're simultaneously partying and working.

Last night we had our ship party at a private event in Seattle. Today we had a celebration (I missed as I was at the Shareholder's meeting) and got our ship gifts - nifty uniqely colored Zunes.

On another note, things were pretty exciting last week; we had amazing flooding out near my house in snoqualmie. Nice pictures here http://flickr.com/search/?q=snoqualmie+flood&m=text. I was driving home across one of the roads and ended up in a puddle that got deeper...and deeper...until I noticed there was a crosscurrent - the river was coming across the road! Got out just in time and then they closed the road.

Wow, lots of good comments here since more specifics hit the web. Many fall into the "feature request" bin, and I feel bad that some folks are disappointed by features we didn't include at launch. While I can't go into specifics, I wanted to respond generically.

Most feature requests fall into one of two bins:
Niche features that wouldn't appeal to the mass market consumer - not that any of these are bad or unimportant, just that we initially needed to focus on the biggest buckets to get to market. Frankly, many of the PlaysForSure partners have tried to differentiate from Apple by adding these features, and have made little or no traction. In fact, many of those guys get trapped into serving the enthusiast community at the expense of the mass market (ex: Archos). Great features that we simply couldn't get to by launch - I feel sad about the items on this list, but you should know we're on the case here and those features will roll o...

I've got info on all the Zune Launch Parties. We've got one in Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, LA, NYC, and Miami (link going up later today). Check this site tomorrow for details....

Next Thursday night (11/9), you can come to LA to check out Zune and hang out with some other folks on the Zune team. We'll also have some music there: Jason Bentley and Bitter:Sweet. If you live in the area,...

Greetings again from NYC. So I haven't had a second to round up all the Zune reviews, but my buddy Coops at Zuneinfo has. Go have a look. thanks for the heads up, Coops...

Today in NYC we're having a Zune preview day, a media event. We rented out this space between Chelsea and Flatiron, brought in an event production crew, some plasma monitors, some Zune devices, and a bar: (before) (after) Media in...

Small Sins,you might recall, have their track Stay pre-loaded in Zune. After a bit of rice pudding, I went off to see MSTRKRFT play a Zune event at the Union Square Puma store. (highly recommend checking them out). And to...

Ryan (Engadget) and Jason (Gizmodo) both post comprehensive Zune reviews. I know most readers of this site hit up Engadget and Gizmodo religiously. So do I. So you've probably seen these already. Just in case though: Microsoft Zune player and...

If you're looking to learn a bit more about Zune Marketplace before you can get it on November 14, check out this article on Zune.net. And you can read about Microsoft Points - how they work, how to get them,...

On behalf of the Zune team, Happy Halloween. I thought I'd share with you my favorite theme-appropriate song: I'm off to CMJ; I'll be blogging from there!...