I saw my first Zune in the wild today.  I have seen one other Zune before but I am not counting it because it was owned by a Microsoft employee. 

As I was on my way to work I saw a guy jogging through my neighborhood who had a Zune strapped to his arm.  This wasn’t a flash based Zune either it was the hard drive model.  I just felt sorry for the guy and I wondered if he had actually chosen to purchase a Zune or if it was a gift that he didn’t feel like he could exchange without hurting someone’s feelings. 

I attended our local DotNet users group meeting last night. The users group had set our own little Microsoft Launch Event for Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008. We had speakers give a presentation on each product and they were all pretty good. Because of the time constraint I didn’t learn anything new about Visual Studio 2008 but I feel like I got at least a basic introduction to both of the other products.

At the end of the meeting everyone got a set of disks with Visual Studio 2008 Standard and at least evaluation copies of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. After they handed those out they held the drawing for the regular user group give aways. Before last night the most I had ever gotten was a yellow water bottle. When they did the drawing my name came up first and I got first pick. I chose Vista Ultimate with Service Pack 1. I am looking to build a new PC this year and I wasn’t sure if I would install XP or Vista. Now that I have a free Vista Ultimate I will going with Vista.