Zune 30 Dies Then Resurrects Itself

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Today's news reminds me of the old Y2K scare, except this time it actually happened. Some Zune owners suddenly found themselves without a functional portable media player recently because of a glitch. Read the details and you tell me if it doesn't sound a bit eerie.

For all of you Zune 30 owners who woke up this morning to find your PMP frozen in despair at the thought of spending another year alone, Microsoft has finally acknowledged their boo-boo and explains it thusly: There is a bug in the internal clock driver causing the device to choke on the last day of a leap year.

Fortunately, the issue fixes itself. When the clock strikes on January 1, 2009, the problem goes away. What's even better is that you only have to worry about this on the next leap year. By then, you'll hopefully have a different portable media player. Of course, if that happens to be another Zune, I can't give you any guarantees.

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