Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:29 AM
joshpoley
You Don't Need a Zune to use the Zune Software (aka "yet another free media player")
With the release of version 2.5 of the Zune software, I thought I would point out a fairly obvious, but not widely know, fact. Anybody can use the Zune software to manage and play their media files on the PC. You don't need a Zune device in order to take advantage of the Zune media player.
Go ahead, check it out, the Social awaits.
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About joshpoley
Josh Poley has been a software tester (SDET) at Microsoft since 1998. He initially worked on the very first version of the Passport authentication service (currently called Windows Live ID). Then, in the spring of 2000, Josh moved over and joined a small handful of people who were starting to work on a project code-named Xbox. His initial responsibilities covered various pieces of the low level operating system (file systems, peripheral communication, etc.). Shortly after the Xbox game console launched in 2001, Josh took over as lead of the Kernel Test Team and remained in charge of validating the core operating system throughout the development and launch of the Xbox 360. Then, in the spring of 2007, Josh joined the Zune group as a Test Architect, where he helped solve various problems across the four main test teams in the organization. After a year in Zune, Josh went back to Xbox to help solve some more hard problems there.
