A Touch Zune?

This topic has been bounced around alot ever since the IPhone and the IPod Touch came out with full touch screen navigation. As a matter of fact, that is what was asked of Microsoft's Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices Division. His answer?

"Ah, a question about whether we're going to make a touch-screen Zune. I won't talk about future product things that we're doing explicitly, cause that will get me in trouble with a lot of people.

"I will say that some of the some of the things I showed today around touch and vocie and cameras and those types of things, you will start to see that in a lot of places, not just in my division but across all of Microsoft.
"So, independent of specific plans for any specific product, you should just assume over time that that's going to become part of the products that we produce. And, you know, specific timing and all those things, I'll leave aside, but it is a huge trend. And once you have something like touch or voice to interact with, you wonder why you did it the old way. So I think that's going to be a very powerful trend."

Hmm, a touch screen or voice activated Zune would be quite interesting. I can see myself poking around on a gadget like that, but I would miss the touch pad that the Zune already has. Thoughts?

Here is the link to the full article: http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2009/02/13/microsofts_bach_wont_talk_specifics_on_touch-scree.html