Let?s get one thing out of the way first, no the Zune isn?t as good as the latest Apple iPod. Right we?ve done with that and now we will concentrate on the stand alone Zune without comparing it to Apple?s creation. Microsoft has finally taken its own action in creating a worthy music player, for the last few years they have created the software for companies like Creative and Toshiba so they can go on to produce hardware that will hopefully take the MP3 buying public by storm, unfortunately that hasn?t happened with any of the hardware releases over the last few years, with that well know music player ruling the headphones. Read on at ActiveWin