The Reason the Zen Touch Suc

I just read this news article about an anti-trust suit done against Microsoft in Iowa:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busine...oftware22.html
In it, Jim Allchin, Microsoft's Windows chief, is mentioned as having "expressed deep frustration with one of Microsoft's music device partners".
They linked to an email in 2003 which is available here (pdf format):
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/m...ry/PX08636.pdf
Guess who it was about? That's right, Creative.
Microsoft's Windows chief essentially said Creatives devices and software sucks. Then he went on to say the IPod is miles ahead.
What was the solution? It was to get MTP support. Well Creative suck at this too. My touch doesn't connect anymore as I use Windows Media Player .
As a matter of fact, the touch now only works if and only if you have:
A. Windows
B. Windows Media Player 0
WMP 9 or WMP don't work. There is no removable disk mode. Creatives software for the touch sucks. Creatives Firmware for the touch sucks.
Wake up creative! Do something.
I don't want an iLife or to be an MS lackey with a Zune. I love the look of the Creative brand and that it was there before any others were even trying mp3 players.
but right now, you really suck.
You have to do something!Message Edited by Smiler on 0-22-200709:9 AM
Message Edited by Smiler on 0-22-200709:20 AM

interesting, i've tried everything to get my Touch working on my new laptop which has WMP installed, bugger all it just dosn;t want to know,?it worked without a moments problem on my old laptop & that had WMP 0 installed, so i guess the answer to my question you've just answered..............so my question is where do i go from here ?

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wingus wrote:Okay, I have a problem with my Creative Zen Touch. This problem only just started recently and hasn't stopped. All the songlengths on my tracks are wrong. Some are like 24 minutes, but the song plays for it's regular time length and then goes to the next song. Others have really short songlengths, and just keep playing after it says there are 0 seconds left on the track. This doesn't exactly affect the was the songs play, but it's considerably annoying. I tried resetting the player and it didn't work. I also downloaded the latest Firmware, hoping that it would fix it, but it didn't work.
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Touch
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2- Has a dedicated volume button and has a mix of buttons and touchpad(lot of ppl like that)
3- People seem to have a lot of prob with the touch software and touch does not offer EAX options
4- The LCD light could use a fixing.
Micro
- Smaller HD than the touch (5 GB)
2- Comes with a lot of features for its price. (FM, MIC, date and planner, removable disc mode, etc)
3- Better looking and is more compact and smaller, fits almost newhere.
4 - Software is better and is more reliable, plus removable battery.
5 - 0 colors to choose from.
6 - Comes with a few of accesories ( Belt clip, stand, pouch)
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