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Gizmodo | by Chris Jacob | Sat, Nov 7

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It's good to see Microsoft offering optimizations, but we're still waiting for a more major firmware upgrade: Social networking, IM, and YouTube should be top priorities. That being said, I still love the Zune HD—it's even wowed the notoriously hard-to-please Brian Lam.

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Thumbnail Last Week, flung from Krunker says (in Zune HD gets a new firmware update) Microsoft released version 4.3 of their Zune HD firmware today. The new update includes bug fixes, support for 3D games, and new applications to the Zune HD. The list of fixes (courtesy of Digital Trends) are as follows:

Technorati Tags: Zune HD firmware update 4.3

Thumbnail 2 Weeks Ago, stevecla01 from MSDN Blogs says (in Zune HD 4.3 firmware released) Though I’m not seeing it yet (must be a staged rollout) the 4.3 firmware for Zune HD has just been released. I’m going to change my region to US to see if that jolts it.

2. Start the Zune desktop software and reconnect your Zune. The update should start right away.

Thumbnail And Anything But iPod says (in Zune HD Firmware 4.3 Released) Microsoft just released firmware 4.3 for the Zune HD. It fixes some minor issues like speeding up the browser, does some preliminary support for upcoming applications and games and also adds predictive text input to make it a bit easier to type on the device. It also speeds up the startup a lit...

And Robert Nelson from ClicZune says (in Patch: Firmware 4.3 now available for the Zune HD) In a little bit of good news/bad news, the Zune HD has received a firmware update. The update will bring your Zune HD up to version 4.3 and with it comes support for "3d games and applications." As you would...

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