Google search for ‘iPod killer’ still yields no results

Billg spoke thus:

“For something we pulled together in six months, we are very pleased with the satisfaction we got,” Bill Gates, Microsoft’s chairman, said in an interview Tuesday. “The satisfaction for the device was superhigh. The satisfaction on the software actually is where we’d expect to see a huge uptick this year. It was just so-so on the software side.”

Fact: Thus far, the Zune has sold 1.2 million units worldwide. I expect this gives Steve Jobs a huge uptick. Er, what exactly is an ‘uptick’? I’ve led such a sheltered life, you see.