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Microsoft’s Zune HD applications are free, and they even come with another feature:

Or, rather, they’re “free,” since Microsoft has apparently decided to sell ads against them. The ads show up during app launch, which takes an astonishingly long time. Booting Chess took 30 seconds, though I suppose one could be grateful for the Kia Soul video that gives the eyes something to do.

I’m shocked.

(Via Marco Arment.)