Microsoft and United hooked up back in June for a hardware-less Zune partnership, which seems to have turned out flattering sweetly for both parties. Dave McLauchlan, arch Zune HD preacher, has dished a news which a two companies have been stepping up their attribute with a set of 500 Zunes being supposing for long-haul flights to Hong Kong and Australia. Before you cry tainted and contend you never get upon a drifting tin can but your own media, Microsoft’s angle here will be to preload those OLED-sporting babies with disdainful calm, including flicks which haven’t nonetheless done it to the DVD release. Dave himself has been using around movie studios and closing deals, while a Zune HDs in subject have now been encased in rubber, had their screens stable, as well as batteries charged. See them in a group shot after a mangle.

Via Engadget