On November 14th, the software giant will launch Zune, a music-player that looks and works very much like an iPod.

这位软件巨人11月14日发布了音乐播放器Zune，其外观与功能都与iPod十分相象。

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Microsoft's music-player is a device that is tightly coupled to music-library software that runs on a computer, and to Zune Marketplace, an online music store.

微软的音乐播放器是与两样东西紧紧捆绑的设备，一是运行在PC上的音乐库软件，二是在线音乐商店Zune市场。

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Zune, in other words, is a proprietary bundle of hardware, software and service—exactly like Apple's iPod-iTunes combination.

换句话说，Zune是一个集硬件、软件和服务于一身的专利包——与苹果的iPod-iTune组合一模一样。

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Since these are Microsoft devices, music and video are handled through Zune software, web searches go through Bing and the browser is Internet Explorer.

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Zune software doesn't read Media Center's proprietary DVR-MS files, perform .wmv conversions for Zune playback, nor does it list hand-encoded episodes as TV shows in the library.

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That means it supports Windows 7 Jump Lists (for quick access to your music controls and playlists from the Taskbar), Previews letting you glimpse and control media by hovering your mouse over the Zune button on the Taskbar, and Aero Snap auto-resizing of the Zune software window.

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