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Microsoft's Zune works only with Windows XP, so what to do if you're a Mac or Linux user? Well of course you could always just choose a different MP3 player, but if you really want a Zune to work with your Mac, there may be hope on the horizon.
Zune Microsoft's [Media Transfer Protocol][3], but thanks to libmtp, a free open source library available for Mac and Linux which implements the MS protocol, you should be able to see your Zune in other OSes.
If you'd like to be able to see your Zune on your Mac, grab a copy of WentNet’s open-source program [XNJB][1] (it's free), which leverages libmtp, and you should be able to view your Zune songs.
XNJB was written to support Creative Nomad MP3 players, but some users have reported that they can read the Zune drive and see their music libraries from from a Mac using XNJB. So far no one has been able to transfer songs though. The problem with transferring is that Zune apparently refuses to transfer files with unknown hosts.
Zune may not actually work with other OSes yet, but I have no doubt that someday soon someone will figure out how to make it work.
If you're interested have a look at [this thread in the Zunescene.com forums][2].
[1]: http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/ "wentnet's xnjb"
[2]: http://www.zunescene.com/forums/index.php?topic=3550.0 "Zunescene forum thread on Mac connectivity."
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol "Wikipedia definition of MTP"
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