CNET's Donald Bell offers photos and videos detailing the new Microsoft Zune software for the third generation of Zune MP3 players. Donald Bell Senior Editor / How To Donald Bell has spent more than ...

Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET senior editor, reviewing everything from MP3 players to the first three generations of the Apple iPad. He currently devotes his time to producing ...

— -- Microsoft quietly announced its third-generation Zune MP3 players and software this week, news that got lost amidst the din of Apple's "Let's Rock" event. As expected, Microsoft will offer a ...

An earlier music, video and photo organizer for Windows PCs and Xbox game consoles from Microsoft. Along the lines of Apple's iTunes software, Zune was used to synchronize media between the computer ...

Read other impressions of the Zune and you notice that writers reserve their most pointed remarks for the Zune software—both for what it lacks that iTunes offers and its performance (or lack thereof).

From everything we’ve seen as it pertains to the Zune 4.0 software, this update is all about making music more enjoyable to listen to, easier to discover, and easier to manage. In addition, you get ...

Zune software and hardware efforts are going separate paths, with Zune services expected to appear on non-Microsoft devices later this year, reports said Friday. The Media Center/Mediaroom unit will ...

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Zune Firmware update, here’s the Zune Software update. The update fixes some bugs in the installation process and also adds Vista ...

With an easy mod to your Zune software, you can hack the suite so it will recognize all kinds of different video and audio formats. Why would you want to do this? Because even though you can ...

Microsoft yesterday revealed details about the features and strategy for Windows Phone 7 — and if this is the core of what’s Microsoft got, it may have difficulty competing against the iPhone and ...

Five years after would-be iPod killer Zune proved unable to gain mass appeal, the Windows Phone has taken over its role as Microsoft's premier digital media player and absorbed its predecessor. While ...

I've used iTunes in the past and have always hated its counter-intuitive UI, the slow and clunky way it operates, the terrible method by which it handles files in its database and any management of ...