gizmodo.com - 12/31/2008
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Right, so this is a weird one: we're getting tons of reports— tons —about failing Zune 30s. Apparently, the players began freezing at about midnight last night, becoming totally unresponsive and practically useless. The crisis has been dubbed by Zune users 'Y2K9', due to the ...
zune.net - 12/31/2008
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zune.net —
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Submit a repair request online. Read our quick overview of everything you can do with the Zune software, players, Marketplace, and Social. Get an additional ...
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engadget.com - 12/31/2008
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engadget.com —
Do you have a Zune 30 ? If
so, does the thing look something like the above?...
That is to say, stuck at a loading bar and completely non-functional? If so, you are not alone. We've been flooded with tips about users whose 30GB players started ...
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30GB Zunes mysteriously begin to fail at 12AM, December ...
zuneboards.com - 12/31/2008
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zuneboards.com —
I was listening to a podcast, and all
of a sudden my zune 30 froze. I've had...
this happen before, so I just pressed the play and let it go through the...
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Microsoft Zune sufferers report ‘widespread’ simultaneous device failures
MacDailyNews —
... or were already off. Upon when turning on, the thing loads up and... freezes with a full loading bar (as pictured above). I thought my brother was the only one with it, but then it happened to my Zune. Then I checked out the forums and it seems everyone with a 30GB HDD model has had this happen to them ." MacDailyNews Take: Wow, all three Zune sufferers affected at once! Quelle tragédie! Good thing the poor bastards have already long been helmeted for their own safety. Full article here . Tim Stevens reports much the same for Engadget, "[The] 30GB players started locking up ...
MS Zune 30s freezing everywhere, ’simultaneously’
p2pnet news —
... 31st, 2008, Zune 30’s across the world simultaneously went to the boot screen and stayed there, frozen,” says the Wikipedia, going on »»»
Some believe the problem stems from the recent 3.1 update. Victims are giving the event many names, among them Y2K9, Z2K, and the December 31st, 2008 Zune Meltdown.
A response from Microsoft is pending.
Gizmodo says it’s, “getting tons of reports — tons” about the players ...
Linkpost | 12.31.2008
TechBlog —
... December 31, 2008 Linkpost | 12.31.2008 [ I'm on vacation through Thursday. I'll blog occasionally and keep up with the daily Linkposts, though they may get posted later in the day than usual. ] • 30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once - Started happening after midnight. Zunes freeze at the startup screen. Incident has already been dubbed Z2K9. • ...
Z2K? Reports of Microsoft 30GB Zunes failing
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... . Reports were pouring into Zune fora that first gen 30GB were failing en masse. They began failing at midnight last night, and users are dubbing it Z2K9. Despite it happening around the New Year, Gizmodo throws cold water on the idea that it might be a date-based error. ...
Zunesday
Digital Daily —
... Call it the Z2K9 bug. At approximately midnight EDT on Dec. 30, a very, very large number of first generation 30 GB Microsoft Zunes failed en masse. According to ...
Microsoft Zune 30 GB models mysteriously crashing in droves
Obsessable News Feed —
... Conversations: All Together Now!: 30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once [gizmodo.com] ...
Zunes Everywhere Froze At 2am This Morning [Microsoft]
Consumerist —
[image] If you're Steve Jobs, you probably dream of stories like this: Zunes all over the world froze up at around 2am this morning and won't reboot, and nobody knows why. ...
Every 30GB Zune In The World Froze At 2am This Morning [Microsoft]
Consumerist —
[image] If you're Steve Jobs, you probably dream of stories like this: Zunes all over the world foze up at around 2am this morning and won't reboot, and nobody knows why. ...
Around the Web 12.31.08: Dell management shake-ups, yogurt clerk weighs in on Jobs' health
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... -- Hundreds of Zune 30s up and died at once. It's the sign of the apocalypse! Gizmodo -- Dell will shake up its management, with some top execs stepping down. WSJ -- Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, is buying the blog Consumerist from Gawker Media. NYT -- Viacom may pull its properties off of Time Warner Cable tonight if a contract dispute isn't resolved. Bye bye, Sponge Bob Square Pants. Bye bye, Jon Stewart. LAT -- Wikipedia is ...
Roundup: Dell underperformance, Tesla’s tough times, FCC blues and more
VentureBeat —
... I hope these start working again Zune — A mysterious glitch is causing all recent 30 gigabyte Zunes (Microsoft’s iPod competitor) to stop working, according to reports on Gizmodo. ...
The Zune Screen Of Death
TechCrunch —
... , all overnight, that is yet to be resolved. From Gizmodo: “Apparently, around 2:00 AM today, the Zune models either reset, or were already off. Upon when turning on, the thing loads up and… freezes with a full loading bar (as pictured above). I thought my brother was the only one with it, but then it happened to my Zune. Then I checked out the forums and it seems everyone with a 30GB HDD model has had this happen to them.” ...
Zune users, you are fired as of today!
The Next Web —
... Zune is the Microsoft answer to Apple’s iPod and today many of its users reported en-masse failures of this music player (specifically, the 30 Gb version of it). The player began freezing at the loading point and become unresponsive (and thus useless). ...
Zune became self-aware at 2:00 AM December 31, 2008
VentureBeat —
... Sometime around 2:00 AM last night, the 30 gigabyte version of the device “totally unresponsive and practically useless,” according to Gizmodo. Yes, that apparently means all of them. Microsoft has confirmed the worst ...
Microsoft's Year-End Zune Fail
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... , Dec 31, 2008 05:48 PM [image] Users of the 30-GB Zune all over the world awoke this morning to find that it was the day the music died . Although it's still a bit of a mystery why the Zunes failed, the only fix that gets the Zune working right now is an extreme reset that requires ...
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30GB Zune players locking up en masse
electronista.com 12/31/2008 — Hundreds or thousands of Zunes appear to be failing simultaneously, according to accounts from official forums and other websites. The errors began at approximately midnight Eastern time, after which turning on a number of 30GB players results in them ...
Zunes of Death: Microsoft’s Y2K9 Problem
technologizer.com 12/31/2008 — Good grief–vast numbers of folks with 30GB Microsoft MP3 players with the latest firmware are reporting that their players have reset and are stuck at a boot-up screen, and are therefore inoperable. It’s not clear what’s going on–the fact that Zune tech support has the ...
Zune 30GB Bricks Itself
solsie.com 12/31/2008 — Zune users report all over the Internet about their Zune freezes at reboot. This phenomenon seems to happen strangely exactly at midnight PST on Tuesday 12-30-2008
Read Zune.net , ZuneUser.com , and ZuneScene for more details. Microsoft has not answered as of Wednesday morning.
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All Zune 30s crapping out?
crunchgear.com 12/31/2008 — It seems that a random bug is affecting a bunch, if not every, 30GB Zunes . Real early this morning, a bunch of Zune 30s just stopped working. No official word from Redmond on this one yet but we might have a gadget Y2K going on here. Fan boards and ...
How to Revive Dead Zunes 30s [Zune]
gizmodo.com 12/31/2008 — Reader Neil has just told us a DIY solution to revive Zune 30s killed by the Zunepocalypse until Microsoft gets back with an official fix. It requires some slight disassembly , but nothing too complicated. Follow Rapid Repair's guide to taking your ...
30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once —
Bink.nu
Right, so this is a weird one: we're getting tons of reports—tons—about failing Zune 30s. Apparently, the players began freezing at about midnight last night, becoming totally unresponsive and...
Continue this aticle on Bink.nu
'Zune Tattoo Guy' Scoffs At Zune's Epic Fail —
iPhone Savior
The infamous Zune Tattoo Guy (aka Steven Smith) became my first iPhone
call of 2009. I was curious to learn what the one-time fanatical poster
boy of the pathetic Zune Scene had to say about the December 31 mass
failure of Microsoft's 30GB Zune media player. It was the kind of news
that ...
Microsoft Gives Zune Solution —
Digital Trends
Microsoft has come up with the reason – and a solution – for the mysterious failure of so many 30GB Zune players yesterday. The problem was caused by a bug in the driver of the Zune 30 that caused it to improperly handle the final day of a leap year, meaning all ...
Massive Zune 30GB issues reported, auto-fixed by midnight —
TechSpot
Today is a bad day to be a Zune user, it seems. There are numerous reports coming in from all over about a widespread failure of Zune 30GB models locking up during boot with no ability to turn them off or reset the devices. The problems have appeared in mass quantities on the Zune forums as well ...
Microsoft blames Zune crashes on Leap Year glitz —
p2pnet news
p2pnet news view Music | Mobiles:- “This is NOT a hoax, it is freaking reality,” says Macrat in a comment post to the p2pnet story that Microsoft Zune 30s were struck down in their thousands by the Z2K9 plague .
“Took mine to work after purchasing music off the flippin ...
Official Fix for the Zune 30 Fail [Zune] —
Gizmodo
Microsoft's responded to the Zune 30GB failure with this answer as to why it happened. And a fix. Ok guys here is the deal. Early this morning we were alerted by our customers that there was a widespread issue affecting our 2006 model Zune 30GB devices (a large number of which are still ...
30GB Zune Owners Experiencing Widespread Failure —
Technology - Channel Feed
Three items on my will-purchase-sometime-in-the-near-future-hopefully list right now include an Amazon Kindle , a new Logitech webcam and the 120GB Zune .
Current 30GB Zune holders aren’t too happy right now as there appears to have been systematic failure of 30GB Zunes across the land ...
Zune Problems: Why Is My Zune Frozen? —
The Inquisitr » Technology
Having Zune problems? You’re not alone.
Users of Microsoft’s media player are finding their Zunes frozen and stuck on the loading screens. The widespread Zune failure is already being dubbed Z2K or Z2K9.
Zune Freeze: What’s Up?
The Zune freeze appears to be affecting ...
30GB Zune - Did Yours Die? —
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP
The blogsphere is full of horror tales of Zune 30GB owners waking up to dead Zunes. Microsoft states that:
“We are aware that customers with the Zune 30GB are experiencing issues with their Zune device. We are actively working now to isolate the issue and develop a solution to address ...
'Y2K9' bug hits 30 GB Zunes —
Betanews
In the early morning hours of the final day of the year, many Zune users found their devices frozen on the logo screen, totally unresponsive.
Z2K? Reports pour in of frozen Zune media players* —
L.A. Times Tech Blog
Internet message boards are lighting up with reports that 30-gigabyte models of Microsoft's Zune digital media player froze up shortly after midnight today.
The players seem to be getting stuck with the Zune logo on the screen (see the photograph to the right uploaded to Flickr), and ...
Z-Day Hits Zune 30s —
Mobility Site
In a story that is all over the net already, it appears a strange malady is hitting many if not all first generation Zune 30s. At some point on Dec 31 (no word if there is a specific time that is most common or if the time is even relevant), they are resetting and then freezing up with the ...
Zune 30s succumb to software glitch —
SuperSite Blog
If you’re one of the 17 people who actually own a first generation Zune 30 (I am, by the way), you awoke this morning to discover that the device will not boot. The problem, apparently, is a software glitch tied to the date (December 31, 2008). I can confirm that this is the case with my own ...
Microsoft's Zune suffers worldwide glitch —
Technology
Tens of thousands of owners of Microsoft's Zune music player were dismayed this morning to discover that their device had stopped working '” in a worldwide failure that appeared to make consumer electronics history. Microsoft said it was working ...
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