After many long nights, weekends, breakfast/lunch/dinners spent working on Zune, today we're in stores. So we're having a little party to celebrate - we had balloons: catered breakfast: and the best part - custom soda! Thanks to everybody on the product team, my other friends in marketing, everyone in design, everybody! And a big thanks to everybody out there in the Zune community!

We just got a shipment of Pink Zune players, and I got my hands on one: (I'll open my eyes wider next time ;) And check this picture of my employee-launch-gift Magenta Zune side by side with the Pink Zune: (both are playing The Editors, but different songs) And finally, by request , I'm posting the backgrounds on the Zune players I posted before I went for vacation. Go here for larger images. I actually requested more than one Pink Zune. And they're not for me; they're for you. In the next few days...

Wow! I'm loving all the conversation about this in my last post . I'm back from CES now and I've had some time to read up on the keynote, especially the Cisco Apple iPhone. So, a few thoughts: Steve Jobs is a great showman, and his keynote wowed a lot of people. Even on this site. Although I think we're past the Reality Distortion Field now and people are taking a more grounded look. Along with Krull , this Engadget article made me go 'hmm.' I wonder if Apple partnered with LG, like we partnered...

NPD published data again, and in the second week, Zune has dropped to the number five spot, with a 2.1% market share. Sure, it's tough to see a drop after debuting at number 2 , but this the second week of a multi-year plan, and the strategy is still the same. That means we'll have some up weeks, and we'll have some down weeks. Overall though, we're happy with how consumers are reacting to Zune. Via the San Jose Mercury News