Just what Microsoft wanted for the New Year's! Owners of the 30 GB Microsoft Zune (a failed attempt to compete with the Ipod) woke up to find their machines frozen! This has got to be one of the weirdest reported tech glitches I've heard of in YEARS:
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.
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."
Another iReporter said he was working the night shift at a Toys R Us store in Puerto Rico when his Zune player and the Zunes of four co-workers all failed about 1:30 a.m. ET Wednesday. iReport.com: They all froze up
"It froze and there was no way to turn it off so you just have to wait until the batteries went dead. You can't push any buttons or anything," Carlos Colon told CNN. Colon said he owns a first-generation 30GB model.
Haha. Hahahaha. Bwahahahaha! Absolute hilarity!
tough break indeed. first the X-box meltdown and now the this. at least the Zune seems to be more fixable...
tough break indeed. first the X-box meltdown and now the this. at least the Zune seems to be more fixable...