Frozen Zunes

[Mike H]

Waiting for MS to explain this one...

<http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1350795/
frozen_zune_catastrophe_being_dubbed.html?singlepage=true&cat=15>

Mike H

[docd...@panix.com]

In article <2ae091a5-f1b0-440a...@40g2000prx.googlegroups.com>,

Perhaps the ever-popular 'Be aware of this condition'.

DD

[Arnold Trembley]

Here's another link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28449091/

And a quote:

By Jasmin Aline Persch
msnbc.com
updated 5:04 p.m. CT, Wed., Dec. 31, 2008

Jasmin Aline Persch

Microsoft said Wednesday that a leap year issue caused problems with the
30-gigabyte versions of its Zune digital music player, following a flood
of online customer complaints about the devices freezing up.

(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

The company issued a statement pinpointing “a bug in the internal clock
driver related to the way the device handles a leap year.”

Microsoft also said that “the issue should be resolved over the next 24
hours as the time change moves to Jan. 1, 2009.”

This year, an extra day was tacked on to February, making this a leap
year. By international agreement, the world’s timekeepers are also
adding a “leap second” tonight to keep Earth apace with very precise clocks.

The internal clocks on what is known as the Zune 30 should reset at noon
GMT on Thursday, the company said. After that, 30-gigabyte Zune users
should follow these three steps:

* Let the battery die.
* Recharge it.
* Turn the device on.

Zune Pass subscribers may need to sync their devices with their PCs to
“refresh the rights to the subscription content you have downloaded to
your device,” according to Microsoft’s statement.

===end quote===

There are a lot of unhappy Zune users out there right now...

--
http://arnold.trembley.home.att.net/

[Bradley K. Sherman]

Arnold Trembley <arnold....@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>Mike H wrote:
>> Waiting for MS to explain this one...
>>
>> <http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1350795/
>> frozen_zune_catastrophe_being_dubbed.html?singlepage=true&cat=15>
>>
>> Mike H
>
>Here's another link:
>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28449091/

Oh Lordy! The banks will fail and the world's economic
system will freeze up ... oh wait ...

--bks

[yona...@yahoo.com]

On Jan 1, 12:45 am, b...@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:

Programmers to the rescue...oh wait...