Zune 30GB brickification acknowledged, Microsoft says to wait it out
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted December 31st 2008 6:58PM
posted December 31st 2008 6:58PM
For all of you Zune 30 owners who woke up this morning to find your PMP frozen in despair at the thought of spending another year alone, Microsoft has finally acknowledged their boo-boo and explains it thusly: There is a bug in the internal clock driver causing the device to choke on the last day of a leap year. Rest assured, however -- although they may not be releasing an update for the device any time soon, the issue should resolve itself whenever January 1, 2009 rolls around. So have a safe and happy New Year, and let's hope they do something about this by 2012.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Thank you for making all of that so very clear for me. You're a very generous person, in your own self-hating way.
I have no issue with homosexuals... I do however have Applegayboyphobia. Brought on by you and others like you.
I don't see where you get "self hating" from, perhaps, if I had Psychiatric Degree, like the one you seemingly have... I could come up with some neato self issue for you too. But I'll settle for waiting to see how you figured that out. Unless of course if t was just a pathetic comment from a pathetic little man, with an equally pathetic mind.
Microoft Glitch? (MSG)
What a surprise! They can't get the clock in my computor to work and it won't update either. There are zillions of products you can buy for as liitle as a few bucks that have accurate clocks in them.
Microsoft can't even get a clock right.Makes you wonder? I would hate to have my life depend on something they make! Someday they will get what they deserve for making such poor products. All Monopolies die eventually! Sooner the better!
Paul was KIDDING!!!! It was a joke, settle down please!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting, as it was not *all* 30g Zunes. My 30g did not freeze, but was purchased within the last year -- when I first initialized it, I had to do a software update...so perhaps that is why mine didn't brickify at midnight the other night.
As for the Apple vs. Microsoft pi$$ing match -- I won't buy an Apple product, never have. While I have apple-headed friends, most of them actually experience more complications with their products than I do, all in the name of vanity it seems. They somehow justify the hassle of glitchy products just to have the essence of cool from their glossy toys.
I have multiple Sansa players and the 30g Zune. Never had a prob.
Suzanne, I have an old iPod Mini (4GB, hacked to 8GB). I **do love** the sound, the interface, the functions and even the appearance of the device itself. But I JUST CANNOT STAND ITUNES!!! Usually, apple products are very good. But itunes is too far away of being good, if you want to add your own music (you cannot edit names, groups, etc) or your own digitalized music (your CDs you ripped)
I just can't stop laughing :oD SUE MICRO$OFT! :D
@ SkateNY the idiot
are you trying to tell me nobody would ever want to steal one of these:
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apple fanboys, shut up.
Anytime a hardware or software company is going to have a Homer moment (i.e. "D'OH!"), there are going to be three kinds of people responding:
1) Those willing to condemn the company in question,
2) Those willing to condemn the company and point out how their competitor is flawless,
3) Those genuinely affected by the problem and looking for solutions.
There are, of course, going to be rampant trolls no matter when or where you go, and it really doesn't pay to try and pick a fight with a troll. You're not going to be able to reason with them or accomplish anything besides looking like a jackanape simply for responding to their asinine comments.
There are solutions to issues ranging from software like iTunes to DVD region encoding to even replacing parts on a PMP. If you can use a search engine, and unless you drag your knuckles when you walk upright, then you can find solutions to lots of issues with gadgets.
This is assuredly bad for Microsoft, and no matter how many Zune users weren't affected by this glitch, if one person says, "Screw this crap - I'm getting an iPod Touch" or some other PMP, then effectively Microsoft has lost the ability to make things right with that user. Every hardware & software company has either faced or will face consumer backlash. Apple has its fair share of problems, Microsoft has them, RIM, Intel - the list goes on and on. I have both Microsoft & Apple products, yet, I am NOT a fanboy zealot for either. All I know is that how a company responds to a problem like this is how they will be judged for future accomplishments. Is this fair? Hell no. But after my XBox 360 suffered the RRoD, Microsoft practically bent over bass-ackwards to make things right with me. In my experience, Apple's customer service has been equally accommodating.
Yes in order to comprehend digital transmittion , know how the clock works, the majority of foul ups are just that the CLOCK!
That's transmitting
How appropriate for Zunes to brick themselves just like they bricked in the marketplace.
does this mean sony's better??