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For a company calling itself Slacker, its business plan is awfully ambitious.

Microsoft is still planning a software update soon to fix several issues with its Zune music player, but releasing the patch is taking longer than expected.

They didn't exactly match Law & Order for celebrity cachet, but the greatest dramas in the tech world this week unfolded in the courtroom.

Microsoft on Wednesday released a minor update to its Zune software aimed at fixing several issues, including one that was causing some users to hear skipping when playing back purchased songs.

Microsoft plans to follow Apple in selling unprotected songs from EMI, though the company won't say just when such tracks will appear on the Zune Marketplace store.