Microsoft discover Valentines Day not a movable feast

What a lovely idea it must have been: a special edition Valentine's Day Zune. Trouble is, Microsoft have managed to screw up the plans and now some people aren't going to have the music players in time for the most romantic day of the year.

Okay, that's a little unfair. Valentine's day isn't especially romantic in the first place, because if you need to be pushed by Hallmark to tell someone you love them, you might have a romance deficiency.

Still, Redmond have offered to give purchasers of the late Zunes their money back; and, if you do manage to forget the 14th, you can always tell your fuming beloved that you'd ordered a Microsoft Zune and it's Steve Ballmer's fault you've turned up empty-handed.

Assuming, of course, your date won't be more annoyed you'd have tried to palm them off with a Zune in the first place.