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1. WiseWeasel

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   12/31, 10:29am | report spam | (1 reply) close | reply

   Woops...

   As if the Zune needed anymore bad PR, MS goes and does something like this... So who's still waiting for a ZunePhone again? : P

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1. Gee4orce

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   12/31, 10:38am | report spam | (1 reply) close | reply

   Thousands ?

   I'm surprised there's actually thousands of the things in active use ?

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1. Ikon

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   12/31, 10:47am | report spam | close reply

   only…

   only the brown model?

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1. slider

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   12/31, 10:52am | report spam | (1 reply) close | reply

   Holy Zhit

   Zomething'z really wrong. Maybe Sune just needz a firmware update or zomething, zhit doez happnen after all, it' z just funny b/c it happened to the Sune.

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1. Parky

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   12/31, 11:04am | report spam | (1 reply) close | reply

   Oopps

   It does appear to be a major issue affecting ALL 30GB Zunes. The main thread in the Zume support site is already over 1800 posts. MS have also acknowledged the issue on the main Zune support page. There is already talk of class action law suits!! Looks like a software issue to me.

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1. wings_rfs

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   12/31, 11:14am | report spam | (1 reply) close | reply

   Nomad

   This is the real story:
   
   1. MS borrowed some old code from the Nomad space probe (Star Trek, 1966?) to use in the Zune.
   
   2. MS programmers don't fully understand the concept of leap years, so when the Zunes woke up this morning they thought it was 2009, but since this year has 366 days, they were wrong.
   
   3. This triggered the Nomad code to STERILIZE anything not perfect, and they promptly self destructed.

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1. gitcypher

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   12/31, 11:14am | report spam | close reply

   OH NOOOOO

   It's Y2K...9

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1. dynsight

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   12/31, 11:23am | report spam | close reply

   Subscribed Zunes

   No no no you all have it wrong,
   
   Much like M$ tried with music, users paid no heed to their license agreement with the Zune player...usage was based on a subscription plan.
   
   The subscription ran out, so users must re-purchase the Zune to use it for two more years.
   
   

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1. jeffala

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   12/31, 11:32am | report spam | close reply

   leap second

   I wonder if it's coincidental or not that these mass failures happened on the same day that "they" inject the leap second.

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1. ArcticBear

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   12/31, 11:33am | report spam | (2 replies) close | reply

   precognition

   from page 77:
   "I wonder how long it will take APPLE to create a new Mac vs. PC commercial about this Zune issue."
   
   hehehe...

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1. Monde

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   12/31, 11:41am | report spam | close reply

   What is a zune?

   No, really what is a zune?

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1. Roger@MacNN

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   12/31, 11:56am | report spam | close reply

   M$

   People still do the "M$" thing? It's not as if Apple doesn't try to squeeze cash out of rocks, too.

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1. njfuzzy

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   12/31, 12:55pm | report spam | close reply

   Mass-suicide

   It's obvious. The Zunes have heard a rumor about the next iPod, and they are giving up early! ;)

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1. cal6n

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   12/31, 01:06pm | report spam | close reply

   I know I shouldn't...

   ... but I love it when my prejudices regarding microsoft are reinforced. 2008 has been an excellent year. Here's to an even better 2009.

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1. Guest

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   12/31, 02:05pm | report spam | close reply

   My Story

   Last night I tried to turn on my Zune, and it looked like it was going to work. It started to load up at the Zune screen, but then it froze!I did everything I could possibly do, I tried resetting it and it still didn't work! I let the Zune sit by itself for about 5 hours and when I tried to turn it back on, the battery sign showed up so I recharged it. I really was convinced that it would finally unfreeze and work, but all the Zune did was freeze back up at the Zune loading screen. I've seen many people with similar issues!
   
   http://i43.tinypic.com/f1lgk7.jpg
   
   (picture of my frozen Zune so that you can see what I'm talking about)
   

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1. dynsight

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   12/31, 02:09pm | report spam | close reply

   No S in Apple

   Roger,
   
   $Apple just doesn't make $ense :)

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1. nat

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   12/31, 03:30pm | report spam | close reply

   you're

   kidding
   
   "People still do the "M$" thing? It's not as if Apple doesn't try to squeeze cash out of rocks, too."
   
   right?

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1. martinX

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   12/31, 05:50pm | report spam | close reply

   Expiry date

   Who new Zune's had an expiry date?

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1. Constable Odo

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   12/31, 06:38pm | report spam | close reply

   Users should throw them

   away and purchase iPods, instead. That might help boost Apple's lackluster share price a few cents or at least stop it from going down any further.

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1. Makosuke

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   01/01, 12:04am | report spam | close reply

   Ouch.

   Man, that's just hilarious. Sure, there's a bit of "Shoulda bought an iPod" schendenfreude, but really it's more that I despise MS and more or less everything it touches for a number of reasons entirely independent of the fact that I use a Mac at home, and it's nice to see anything that will hurt them, in however small of a way.
   
   And yes, Apple tries to make money too. There is, however, a difference between a profit-oriented company and a predatory monopoly that has been convicted of such but never forced to stop. The billions they sunk into the XBox until they killed Sega was an example of how that works, something they were only able to do thanks to outrageous profit margins on the Windows and Office ends of their business. Those two divisions generally make about 5x what MS spends on them, meaning that for every $100 you spend on Windows, $20 goes to making the next version of Windows or fixing bugs, while the other $80 subsidizes the XBox, Zune, or whatever else MS is currently dumping money to, plus shareholder profits.
   
   Why? Monopoly. Period. No reasonable company sees that kind of return, because in a non-monopoly situation they would be undercut by a competitor.
   
   http://tinyurl.com/yognv6

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1. Makosuke

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   Ouch.

   Man, that's just hilarious. Sure, there's a bit of "Shoulda bought an iPod" schendenfreude, but really it's more that I despise MS and more or less everything it touches for a number of reasons entirely independent of the fact that I use a Mac at home, and it's nice to see anything that will hurt them, in however small of a way.
   
   And yes, Apple tries to make money too. There is, however, a difference between a profit-oriented company and a predatory monopoly that has been convicted of such but never forced to stop. The billions they sunk into the XBox until they killed Sega was an example of how that works, something they were only able to do thanks to outrageous profit margins on the Windows and Office ends of their business. Those two divisions generally make about 5x what MS spends on them, meaning that for every $100 you spend on Windows, $20 goes to making the next version of Windows or fixing bugs, while the other $80 subsidizes the XBox, Zune, or whatever else MS is currently dumping money to, plus shareholder profits.
   
   Why? Monopoly. Period. No reasonable company sees that kind of return, because in a non-monopoly situation they would be undercut by a competitor.
   
   http://tinyurl.com/yognv6

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1. elroth

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   01/01, 03:36pm | report spam | close reply

   wow

   Microsoft is so incompetent that it can't even get the Y2K bug to work on time - it's 9 years late!

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1. sirron

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   Whacked? Buy a ZUNE.

   I was smug and laughing at the Zune failures, on New Year's Eve, just before midnight. I happened to look at my iPhone for the time and it was as dead as a doornail. This morning after making an appointment at the Apple store. I plugged the iPhone into my iMac(iTunes) for the third or fourth time and I got a beep out of it. One more connection and it showed up in iTunes. I was able to re-instal the software and update from the backup, but not before thinking it was bricked in some way. That'll teach me not to be smug about other peoples' misfortunes. Even though they are whacked enough to buy a Zune. Happy New Year everyone.