Pity the poor, dumb giant Microsoft. On second thought, no, don’t bother; they’re making bank! And now, their ripoff of answer to the iPod has been launched. And the Zune, it turns out, is just as marvelous and brilliant a stroke of marketing genius as most everything else they’ve come up with. The Chicago Sun-Times sums it up neatly:

The Zune is a square wheel, a product that’s so absurd and so obviously immune to success that it evokes something akin to a sense of pity.

I wonder how it must feel to have your entire R&D department housed at a different company, in a different state, with a different name? And STILL be able to get it so wrong, so often?