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As if millions of voices cried out in terror, and Zunes were suddenly silenced.

fatdog - 2009-01-01 04:29

Oh my god! This is too funny.

While the rumor mill is focused on Apple developing a larger-screen iPod touch, the blogosphere is churning with angry reports about frozen 30GB Microsoft Zunes.

Discussions board like ZuneUser.com, ZuneScene.com and Zune.net offer first-hand accounts of the problems with Microsoft's music player. It seems the Zunes reboot, then freeze once the status bar reaches 100 percent.

Some are calling it the "Z2K" problem, playing off the infamous Y2K bug that many thought would throw the computing industry in chaos at the beginning of the century when dates changed from 1999 to 2000. That's because the problem seems to have started at exactly midnight PST Wednesday -- the first moments of the last day of 2008.

Read more:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nf/20081231/tc_nf/63809

monolithic - 2009-01-01 05:31

I almost feel sorry for Zune owners... Almost.