The Big Think

December 31, 2008

Zuneless

Filed under: Computing — jasony @ 5:25 pm

Another reason to stay far away from Microsoft’s Zune.

Baffled consumers are griping about a mysterious glitch that appeared to cause thousands of Zune music players to simultaneously stop working late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
Microsoft issued the first Zune portable music player in 2006 to compete with the iPod.

Internet message boards have been flooded with complaints about Zune’s 30GB models freezing, prompting Y2K-like speculation about end-of-year hardware or software problems.

“It seems that every Zune on the planet has just frozen up and will not work,” posted a Mountain Home, Idaho, user on CNN’s iReport.com. “I have 3 and they all in the same night stopped working.”

more here.

1 Comment »

  1. hmmm- how about that? my iPod touch still seems to be working just fine!

    Comment by Erin — January 3, 2009 @ 9:33 am

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