Creative's Zen is the first Portable Media Center to hit the market.
Three big announcements today from Microsoft -– and they all revolve around media: There’s the new Windows Media Player version 10, there’s the grand opening of the MSN Music store for downloading music over the Web and the Portable Media Center, essentially a sort of iPod with video and pictures.
I’d like to tell you the entire story –- why all of these items are extremely cool when viewed as a whole –- but unfortunately, that has to wait. Microsoft has embargoed reviewers from writing about a very important piece of the puzzle until the middle of October. So, stay tuned, and in the meantime, there's no shortage of news today:...