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Microsoft's Zune players freeze on New Year's Eve
Published 12/31/2008 by By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer at SFGate: Technology
Happy New Year from Microsoft Corp.: Your Zune is dead. Thousands of Microsoft's Zune media players _ the software company's answer to Apple Inc.'s iPod _ unexpectedly conked out Wednesday and showed users an error message, prompting references to "Y2K for...
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