A Microsoft employee recently lost a top secret prototype of the next generation Zune MP3 player when he inadvertently left in a bar in Redmond. The person who found the prototype Zune tried to sell to the highest bidder, but was repeatedly rejected the idea. We thought at first reluctant to do the operation after the iPhone 4G fiasco last month which saw the home of a journalist assaulted by police, even after the prototype had already been voluntarily returned to Apple. However, further investigation revealed that none of the publications found fifty dollars was to seek asylum for the prototype Zune price be worth the cost.

“We’re not going to pay fifty bucks to bring in an extra twenty-seven page views,” said the publisher of one prominent tech blog, “particularly since seventeen of them will come from Steve Ballmer’s desk.” The publisher then went on to explain that the Microsoft CEO’s interest in the new Zune model would be less likely to come out of outrage over the lost prototype, but instead more likely because Ballmer himself probably hasn’t yet gotten around to taking a look at the low priority Zune in-house.

However, the publisher has admitted that he briefly considered “one of those stickers to put the Apple logo on the back” and try to get readers to be the new iPod touch.

Under pressure, none of the journalists in question could not remember the number of the next generation of Zune, or whatever the current generation it seems.