I'm a happy subscription music user. It's a great option if you like to explore lots of new music (if you don't, it's not). However, Microsoft hasn't been successful promoting it, and this is another bad move. Although I’ve spent hundreds of dollars happily renting music for years, I’ve never purchased DRMed music and never will.

Forking PlaysforSure into Zune was a bad and disturbing move, but it didn't really affect me directly. Changing it to “Certified for Windows Vista” is so idiotic–it’s hard to see it surviving much longer. I think I should start looking for alternatives.

The Redmond Reality Distortion Field (RRDF) apparently allows them to convince one another that Vista will soon be ubiquitous. They should prepare for and encourage this by giving Vista more visibility; co-branding all those Zunes and music they’ll soon be selling, even forcing music partners to use Vista branding (‘till they’re extinguished by Zune). Its crazy; and they don’t appear to be coming up for air anytime soon.

First you have PlaysForSure and the compatible stores, then MSN Music, Urge and now the Zune marketplace, and almost none of these stores have music compatible cross platform. If you download something from MSN music it won't work on the Zune for example!

Talk about needless confusion….soooo stupid.