Butt-ugly. Does not even come close to the iPod. However, there are rumors that Microsoft is willing to spend a billion dollars to "buy back" all the iTunes songs in AAC format in order to lure iPod consumers to a Microsoft device. For example, if you bought 800 songs on iTunes over the past couple of years, Microsoft is apparently willing to buy those 800 songs for you in WMA format from their own music service provided you buy this Microsoft MP3 player.
Ditto.
I meant that I agree with your assessment of that thing. :-)
Really, I see the song buy back program as the only real way MS will be able to catch or overtake Apple in this arena. If they are going to compete they almost have to do this.
Personally, I have invested quite a bit of money in song downloads from Apple. No way I'm going to surrender these. Moreover, MS has to hurry to get in the market as once movie start to be available for download the game will be over. Hard to imagine anyone buying back movie downloads.