[Joiseydude]

"We are aware that customers with Zune 30GB devices are experiencing issues with their Zune device," a Microsoft spokesman, in a separate statement, said. "We are actively working now to isolate the issue and develop a plan to address it. We will keep customers informed on next steps via the support page on zune.net."

[King Moonracer]

Microsoft Corp.'s Zune portable music player is suffering from a glitch that may have frozen thousands of units

Thousands??? Wow, they sold that many.

[NinoFan]

LOl @ Zune Extinction Event

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A hard reset supposedly fixes it.

[Centurion2000]

This would be a ZELE.

Zune Extinction Level Event.

[trumandogz]

LOL!!!

As I post from my iPhone.

[big'ol_freeper]

Microsoft has really turned into a joke.

[CE2949BB]

I always wanted a brown Zune.

[Vinnie]

Y2009K

[momincombatboots]

Something from Microsoft that crashes? Surely not? That is why i will never again own a microsoft product, ever!!

[csvset]

frozen thousands of units

Global freezing.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Well I for one am glad this is a Zune. I have one of the effected units btw.

I bet MS will either fix it or offer a new one.

They are under such public scrutiny that they almost HAVE to...

Other IT companies like Cisco, Apple and others fly below the lamestream media radar and are able to get by with much less consideration for the consumer.

The Zune unlike other units is not designed to be a disposal player and I am sure Microsoft will stand behind it.

I am not otherwise a big fan of MS. Vista is almost as bloated as Fedora Core 10 in my book!

[btcusn]

Microsoft says that it has something to do with the clock timer bug and 2008 being a leap year. The latest statement hopes that tomorrow the problem will go away till next leap year.
I read about this problem here and checked my sons. Turned it on and it froze, he swears that I broke it!!!
Jack

[bperiwinkle7]

I turned mine on and it froze just like everyone’s...appeared to reboot and that’s all. Can’t turn it off...nothing works.

Surely they will offer a fix? I called their support lines and a recording said they were unable to take my call because of “bad weather”...that was the dumbest thing I ever heard.....

Then I thought later, did they mean “the freeze”?

NOT FUNNY.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I was reading on another website that they may revive at 12:01 am GMT.

We’ll know in another hour.

[Vaak]

What is wrong with Microsoft? First, the Xbox dies, the drives that is, then there’s reason to believe they released the 360 even though they scratch cd’s, then they release vista, then the 360’s go out, now this.
What’s the only constant? Pretty sure it’s just the blowhard Steve Ballmer.

[Paradox]

I thought I had screwed up my Zune 30 this morning, a quick check on the internet showed that it wasn’t just me. Its a leap year bug. All these Zunes (old ones BTW) should work fine as of 7:00 AM EST on 1/1/09.