I snapped some photos of the Gears of War Zune - check it. First the front: then the back, both on the device and the box:

Long time readers will remember how the Zune Team played in a football futbol soccer tournament last year . A quick backstory: Each year, folks from E&D (Entertainment and Devices, the division of which Zune is a part) global sales/marketing folks in from all over the world come to Redmond, to talk strategy across the entire lineup. To kick off the week, a group of folks play in the tournament. This year, I reprised my role as a defender on the Zune team, Zune United: ( pictured from bottom left...

The email I sent out to everybody on the Zune team today: From: Cesar Menendez Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:53 PM To: Zune Team Subject: zune cake Today we (the Zune team) received a cake from a member of the Zune community – Stefan at I Want a Pink Zune dot com . Stefan ordered the cake from Mike’s amazing cakes : The caption reads: From all the Zune fans and I want a PINK Zune dot com, keep up the great work. We are eagerly awaiting the next Zune If you want to have a look at it – it’s downstairs...

Yesterday we announced that we'll be releasing a military exclusive Zune - available exclusively at military retailers. These will be available to military personnel and their families at a special discounted price. Yesterday we partnered with the USO (Microsoft and the USO have a long-standing partnership) for an event at the Baltimore Washington International airport. We gave away 300 devices at BWI,part of a cool care package that we put together for soldiers there. The idea, in large part, came...