When I fired up the Zune client this morning to listen to my podcasts I was told that there is a newer version. I updated the client software first on my machine and then upgraded my Zune. There were several things that I liked:

1. I think the new interface is cleaner and easier to navigate.
2. New podcasts in the marketplace. They may have been there before but I found it easier to navigate around and find what I want.
3. Mixview in the Zune Social. Here is the view for my Zune. I did notice that it only shows the recent items played on the Zune and not from the desktop client.
   
4. Games added to my Zune. I haven't had time to play them but I figure over the next couple of weeks there will be some down time to check them out.
5. Easier setup than iTunes. This issue should probably be a different post but I really don't want to blog vile when I only have 1 try behind me as I might have been the problem. The short version is that I set up iTunes for my son and was very disappointed by the lack of keyboard support in the setup program.
6. Audiobooks - I know this has been a very requested feature as I have talked to other users. Now you can download and transfer books from audible.com and overdrive.com.
   

There are some things I didn't like:

1. I had to remove the "friends" that were added for me in the Zune social. I don't know how they were chosen since I didn't recognize one song or artist from my "friends" and removed them.
2. I was told in the upgrade that WiFi would be turned on. When I checked it wasn't so I don't know if it was turned on as part of the upgrade and then set back to it's previous setting (that would be a good thing) or something didn't work like planned (a bad thing).

I am looking forward to many more hours of music from my Zune.

Read the complete post at http://www.grokdev.com/Blogs/scott/2008/09/20/Zune30.aspx