Wow, MS ain’t effing around with this one.

After trailing Apple for about 3 years now with their Zune portable music player, Microsoft has made a solid blow at the defenses of the Mac Cultist Empire with the unveiling of the Zune HD.

Their counterpoint to the wildly-popular iPod Touch, the Zune HD boasts many features against the standard Zune series, including a multi-touch screen, HD video output, HD radio tuning abilities, and a connection to the XBox 360, which will be revealed next week at E3. (Hear that? A shit ton of gaming stories are coming.)

No pricing or capacity information has been revealed for the new Zune, but you can rest assured we’ll all know about it by the time this new player is released in the Fall.

That reminds me…do Zunes work on macs yet?

Original Post: Gizmodo - Zune HD Is Real, Has Multitouch Web Browsing, OLED Screen and HD Video - Zune.