30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once
December 31st, 2008Cylons attack?
Probably not.
Anyway, there’s an object lesson in critical infrastructure here, even though this situation involves digital music players.
Via: Ars:
Around midnight Pacific time last night, 30GB Zunes began restarting and locking up at their boot screens. Reports have swamped official forums and fan sites, and Microsoft has yet to officially comment on the reason for this pre-New-Year’s Zune apocalypse.
As reported by hundreds of owners in forum threads at Zune.net and other sites, one of which already has over 1,000 replies, the 30GB model of Microsoft’s Zune digital media player—and apparently only the 30GB model—entered a coma last night. Whether a Zune was sitting idle or was in the middle of playing a song, users report that the device either shut itself off or restarted and then locked up at its boot screen.
The Revenge of Y2K! In theaters now!
This sounds like Y2K in miniature, almost. Only a few years late, hee hee.
I’m sure Microsoft is giving this the same attention that they lavish on all of their fine products. And they’re no doubt living up to their company motto: “We’re Microsoft. We don’t care. We don’t have to.”
Just another good reason to stick with Creative Labs.