With the Christmas holiday buying season upon us, every major electronics manufacturer is rushing to get its product onto store shelves and into the hands of cash laden consumers.

Microsoft's Zune Media Player should be a hit this holiday season, as some have dubbed it the iPod killer. But some little quirks with Zune are raising the most perplexing of questions. Just try installing the Zune software onto a rig running Microsoft Windows Vista and you'll get the message "This operating system is currently not supported by Zune".

Kinda silly, right? Microsoft's next-gen OS won't talk with their super duper media player. This is most likely something that will be resolved with the first Vista Service Pack (I'll bet it exceeds 1 gigabyte).

Perhaps the Zune crash screen explains it all.

What was Microsoft thinking?