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Title: Leap-year glitch freezes Zune MP3 players
Post by: kinjo on January 01, 2009, 09:56:51 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/31/zune.player.failures/index.html

Story Highlights
NEW: Microsoft says problem should resolve itself after 7 a.m. ET Thursday

Thousands of older 30GB Zune MP3 players freeze

Message boards are buzzing about the problem, which began occurring late Tuesday

User: "It seems that every Zune on the planet has just frozen up and will not work

KINJO: whats funny is that i was going to get a zune, very soon

Title: Re: Leap-year glitch freezes Zune MP3 players
Post by: tkoold on January 01, 2009, 10:14:31 AM

yeah lol but i doubt it would be one of these older ones unless you would try to be cheap :poked:

Title: Re: Leap-year glitch freezes Zune MP3 players
Post by: Whalesdude on January 01, 2009, 02:46:15 PM

Or the company was trying to jew you out of a few dollars.

Title: Re: Leap-year glitch freezes Zune MP3 players
Post by: black death on January 01, 2009, 05:01:08 PM

*Can't stop laughing*

Title: Re: Leap-year glitch freezes Zune MP3 players
Post by: Flashwerewolf on January 01, 2009, 06:43:35 PM

One would think programmers would factor in these things [burst]

Title: Re: Leap-year glitch freezes Zune MP3 players
Post by: Whalesdude on January 01, 2009, 08:30:57 PM

They're not programmers. They're underpaid foreign workers in sweatshops.

Title: Re: Leap-year glitch freezes Zune MP3 players
Post by: kinjo on January 01, 2009, 10:03:30 PM

i went to 2 gamestops today (at the moa) and they didnt have the zunes out on display, it was too busy to ask where they were  [pico]

Title: Re: Leap-year glitch freezes Zune MP3 players
Post by: tkoold on January 01, 2009, 11:13:41 PM

hmm zunes at gamestop? i never noticed..

Title: Re: Leap-year glitch freezes Zune MP3 players
Post by: black death on January 02, 2009, 02:58:25 AM

 [rocket]

Title: Re: Leap-year glitch freezes Zune MP3 players
Post by: Flashwerewolf on January 02, 2009, 03:20:26 AM

now there will be a major prank calling, asking for Zune players!