Hey All I'm spending a day at the Microsoft Campus with the Zune Team, we're talking about the Zune! More details to come... Want me to ask something, post questions in comments.

Software:

• Slightly new software interface
• New album view (picture)
• This release is focused around discovery and discovery of new content
• Mixview (picture) – pulls similar albums from the marketplace and friend info from the Zune social
• See what friends are listening to
• Play and listen to songs through mixview
• Now Playing enhanced (pictures)
• Mixview is accessible through now playing
• Pulls info from marketplace backend
• New Search (Picture)
• Close spelling results
• Better drill down features
• Cart now separated from inbox
• Social
• Edit profile within software
• See your badges within the software
• Remove friends within software
• Follow Artists with tour dates from an Artists main page
• Channels/Picks
• Subscribe to dynamic playlists
• New Releases For Me (releases based on artists you listen to)
• Song updates can occur via wi-fi
• Currently music only (no video or podcast integration)
• Personal Channel Recommendations - based on ratings and listening preferences (not simply the songs you download)
• Works with Zune Pass
• Recommends friends with similar listening preferences
• Settings
• Remove a monitored folder includes the option to remove content from your collection as well
• Show duplicates (that’s why the Zune software was not showing all my tracks.)
• Show now playing while the software is idle
  
• Account summary page
• Buy points
• Buy Zune Pass
• Option to remove Zune Pass content once subscription is canceled

• Rate songs on an individual user basis
• Rate songs in the marketplace
• Manual Sync Option (Picture) – Anything on your Zune now stays on your Zune while linked with your PC (option available in Zune Software Settings).
• Ability to only view content synced in via guest sync
  
• Zune 80 and Zune 4 are only available in the retail channel now (they've been discontinued)

• Not Beta anymore
• You can use the word ‘Zune’ in your status (‘windows’ and ‘xbox’ are other allowed words – there are more available words you have to find them)
• Three design themes
• Zune.net site rediesgn
• Response from user feedback
• Infrastructure improvements

• Ability to opt out of preloaded friends now known as ZuneInsiders
• Social Notification preferences
• Emails about
• Inbox messages
• Friend requests
• Badges
• Comment on ‘my profile’
• Recent friends activities
• Redesigned profile page
• All time stats (yeah they have all your info)
• All time badge stats
• 200
• 1000
• 5000
• Better integration with other social sites
• Redesigned ‘my social’ page
• New forum badges
• New levels for reviews badges
• New artist page (picture)
• Shares (times a song has been shared)
• Favs (based on individual songs)
• Top listeners
• More visual layout
• Less flash(faster loads)
• Multi-line signatures return

• Buy from FM (picture)
• Needs both lines of RDS
• Zune 3.0 Supports RT+ streaming data
• Wi-fi Marketplace is here (picture, picture)
• Currently Music only, no videos or podcasts
• Device now has an on screen keyboard with marketplace (picture)
• Currently only for searching the marketplace and entering router passwords
• Streaming from cart
• Audio books are here
• You can play music while browsing
• Be your own DJ by streaming Zune content and searching the next track to play
• The main screen is content dependent, if you don’t have podcasts, the podcasts option will not show up, same thing with audiobooks and games
• Screen lock (in the device settings screen)
• prevents your Zune (with Zune pass or MS Points) from being used to buy tracks via the wifi marketplace if lost or stolen
• Games
• Two Shipping games
• Hexic (picture)
• Texas Hold ‘em (picture)
• Exiting a game doesn’t cause your Zune to restart
• Zune-to-Zune gaming isn’t ready
• Community games still need the CTP and Visual Studio to be synced with Zune
• Quicklist is gone, now playing takes its place
• Channels can be synced to the device
  
• If there are no channels on your device that option won’t show up under the music heading
• Ability to connect to and remember multiple networks
• 10 spots on your known networks list
• Ability to update channels and friend’s cards from the device
• Exiting a game doesn’t cause your Zune to restart
• ~2-3 hours streaming from wi-fi on Zune80’s
• New Colors
• Zune 8 glossy blue silver back
  
• Zune 16 glossy black with black back
• Zune 120 glossy black with black back