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Originally Posted by Linley Meslier
Microsoft may be the software giant, but so far, hardware-wise, they have been good. I beleive that this "unnamed device" will be a awesome.
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You can bet it will be proprietary up the wazoo.
1. Probably non-standard power connections - requiring special AC adaptors.
2. Non-standard USB connection - again, requiring a special cable.
3. Almost definately will not support USB Mass Storage instead using Microsoft's brain damaged Windows Transport Protocol (where your files go on the device, but can never come back).
4. The only reason it will support MP3 (instead of just WMV) is because no one will buy it if it's WMV only.
I'll be happily surprised if this is untrue, but judging by what Microsoft has done (i.e. pressuring current DAP vendors to put in standard-breaking features), I'm not holding my breath.