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Zune players are having problems with the New Year (msnbc.msn.com)
As described by a friend, it seems that 30GB Microsoft Zune digital media players are experiencing a Y2009 problem. Starting at the International Date Line, the players have started locking up as the year changes. The Y2K problems that were feared nine years ago seem to finally be hitting; for Microsoft anyway.
The Zune Forum has had over 2,400 replies to the original post so far. Microsoft is clamoring to fix the issue following the deluge of customer complaints. On their Zune support site, Microsoft posted:
Customers using the Zune 30 might experience problems starting their players. We’re aware of the problem and are working to correct it. The Zune Social might be slow or inaccessible. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience!
Comments
Great. Microsoft innovates a new bug, for a relatively new product (one Microsoft year is roughly equivalent to seven human years -- check out the time between OS releases, e.g.), and then only discovers it when it's too late. Procrastination (read: incompetence) seems to be one of their strengths, if not also a social skill.
Bad enough that tax payers, consumers and businesses footed a bill totalling hundreds of millions of dollars for their Y2K debacle. (Oh. We forgot the century was turning. Our bad.) Now, owners of their failed "iPod killer" have to suffer yet another insult, beyond a significant degree of insult that obtains from the simple fact of owning a Zune.
When does it end? It ends when Microsoft discovers a bug that dissolves their incompetent corporate mismanagement. Oh, wait. That bug was already discovered but, because Microsoft is Microsoft, noboday cared. Except for those zanie Microsoft Kool Aid drinkers who seem to believe that every POS Microsoft creates is touched by Midas himself.
Thanks again Microsoft. You're nothing if not consistent.
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