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Microsoft says Zune players working again (AP via Yahoo! News)

Thursday 1 January 2009 @ 2:46 pm

Many of Microsoft's Zune media players that froze up on the last day of 2008 because of a glitch involving their internal clock were functioning properly Thursday as the new year was ushered in, according to the company. However, a few people were still complaining of problems operating the devices.

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Microsoft blames leap year for Zune glitch (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Thursday 1 January 2009 @ 11:51 am

A malfunction of some Microsoft Corp Zune music players was caused by an error in the way the device accounts for leap years, Microsoft said.

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Zune Gaffe Just Business as Usual for Microsoft? (PC World)

Thursday 1 January 2009 @ 11:26 am

Microsoft should of anticipated this critical fault in its Zune that temporarily turned many of the digital music players into bricks.

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Many Zune owners overcome leap year glitch (CNN)

Thursday 1 January 2009 @ 11:22 am

Many Zune owners successfully revived their failed music players Thursday morning, while others were still unable to overcome a leap year-related glitch that caused thousands of the devices to simultaneously stop working on New Year's Eve.

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Zune users wake up to find their music gone (San Francisco Chronicle)

Thursday 1 January 2009 @ 3:37 am

Zune users wake up to find music gone Zune users, particularly of the 30-GB version, have been waking up to find their music players are part of an apocalyptic meltdown. The Microsoft devices have been freezing after loading up, leaving users with a picture...

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Zune’s New Year’s hangover comes a day too soon (Microsoft News Tracker)

Wednesday 31 December 2008 @ 11:23 pm

Microsoft’s original 30 GB Zune MP3 players apparently started New Year’s partying a day too soon and are now frozen in hungover immobility…

Update: Microsoft has a fix and luckily it doesn’t involve any more than letting the battery discharge and reconnecting only after noon GMT on January 1, 2009. It turns out that it was a leap year problem.

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