Microsoft updated its Knowledge Base KB946676 today, which is the bug related to the Zune Software.

SYMPTOMS
When you use certain programs to edit files on a home computer that uses Windows Home Server, the files may become corrupted when you save them to the home server. This issue occurs if the following conditions are true:
You edit files that are located in a shared folder on the home server.
You use one of the following programs to edit the files or to save the files to the home server:

Microsoft has successfully reproduced corruptions for the following nine programs:
Windows Vista Photo Gallery
Windows Live Photo Gallery
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Microsoft Money 2007
SyncToy 2.0 Beta
Intuit QuickBooks
uTorrent
The following programs have been reported by customers as having caused corruptions. However, we have not yet been able to reproduce corruptions.
Photoshop Elements
Zune Software
Apple iTunes
TagScanner
Mozilla Thunderbird
Adobe Lightroom
Intuit Quicken
MS Digital Image Library
MP3BookHelper
ACDSee
WinAmp
Windows Media Player 11
Microsoft Office Excel
Visual DataFlex
Note You may also experience this issue when you use other programs that are not listed here.
Note This issue affects only Windows Home Server. This issue does not affect any other versions of Windows Server or of Windows Small Business Server.

CAUSE
This issue may occur because of a recently discovered problem with Windows Home Server shared folders and with certain programs.

STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post more information in this article when the information becomes available. This issue can now be reproduced by using an automated test harness. This process will help Microsoft develop a fix.

Until an update for Windows Home Server is available, we recommend that you do not use the programs that are listed in the “Symptoms” section to save or to edit program-specific files that are stored on a Windows Home Server-based system. This issue only affects Windows Home Server systems that have more than one hard disk drive added to the server storage.

MORE INFORMATION
Before you store files on a system that is running Windows Home Server, make sure that you have a backup copy of any important program files. You can still use the Windows Home Server home computer backup process to back up and to restore files on your home computers. The Windows Home Server home computer backup service is not affected by this issue. [via Microsoft]

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Microsoft just announced that the XNA Game Studio, the user-created games program for the Xbox 360 is coming for the Zune. The demo shown at Game Developer’s Conference shows a person controlling the game with the Zune pad, pausing the game, going out and switching music on the Zune, then going back into the game. Very neat. [via Gizmodo]

Microsoft XNA (“XNA’s Not Acronymed”) is a set of tools, complete with a managed runtime environment, provided by Microsoft, that facilitates computer game design, development, and management. XNA does this by freeing game designers from writing “repetitive boilerplate code“, and brings all aspects of game production into a single system. The XNA toolset was announced March 24, 2004, at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California. A first Community Technology Preview of XNA Build was released on March 14, 2006. XNA Game Studio 2.0 was released in December of 2007. With XNA Game Studio you can build online multiplayer games for your Zune. You can take games from Windows to Xbox to Zune.

Developers will now have the capability to develop once for all three platforms: the Xbox 360, Windows, and Zune. While developers can write one game and target any platform, cross-platform networking between all three platforms is not supported.

Keeping with Zune media experience, XNA Game Studio 3.0 integration includes discoverability and access to user’s music allowing the user to customize background soundtracks or create real-time visualizations. In addition, the XNA Community Games Platform team has announced the ability to have multiple Zunes wirelessly engage in an ad-hoc gaming experience.

A preview release of XNA Game Studio 3.0 will be available in the Spring 2008 timeframe, with a final release scheduled for the holiday 2008 season. [via XNA Creators Club Online]

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