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Re: Microsoft blames clock bug for Zune glitches, promises magic fix

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Re: Microsoft blames clock bug for Zune glitches, promises magic fix

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:42:00 -0000

Did this affect anyone outside of 98052?

Didn't think so. No users!

Re: Microsoft blames clock bug for Zune glitches, promises magic fix

Kyle Mulka — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:27:00 -0000

I think this is the most hilarious tech blunder of 2008!

Re: Microsoft blames clock bug for Zune glitches, promises magic fix

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:51:00 -0000

The Naked Loon live cam was brilliant. The dozens, nay hundreds of Zune users out there must have been transfixed.

Re: Microsoft blames clock bug for Zune glitches, promises magic fix

Buzz — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:05:00 -0000

My Zune is back from the its' DN, e.g. Dead Now stage, working fine. It really is a pretty decent device...

Re: Microsoft blames clock bug for Zune glitches, promises magic fix

BlogReader — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:58:00 -0000

"Jumped on it"? Then why after a day was there nothing on zune.net?

Re: Microsoft blames clock bug for Zune glitches, promises magic fix

RobertinBellevue — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:17:00 -0000

Looks like they haven't learned much in 20+ years! In the mid-80's, I had a systems building company installing the latest versions of MS-DOS on all of the machines I was shipping. Lo and behold, the new version came out (can't remember which one) so of course, I started installing it on all systems shipped out. One of my larger clients was supplying my machines all over the country to hotels to track their mini-bars in real time. Well, a week after the first machines with the new OS went out, I was called on the carpet and told I'd have to eat all the newest machines that shipped out. Why? Because every single one of them was flipping back the date as soon as it hit midnight! I was sweating bullets for a week.

As was typical in those days, Microsoft's initial response was complete denial and no acknowledgment of the problem. It was only after a detailed demonstration that showed how a new machine did this while an older system stayed on time that my customer finally realized it was indeed a Microsoft problem (I lost a lot of sleep worrying about having to eat over a hundred systems!).

Another week later, a somewhat apologetic Microsoft finally provided an upgrade to their OS to correct the clock problem. You’d think someone would have remembered that debacle but then again, maybe everyone’s retired on their stock options from that far back.

I seem to remember the old MS-DOS curse from the old days: Every other version was cursed with errors (I think it was even numbers if my memory still serves me). So I’m left wondering if this particular Zune version was even or odd? And I’m only half-kidding.

Re: Microsoft blames clock bug for Zune glitches, promises magic fix

Raina — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:22:00 -0000

Doubt this fix will work and either way it's not enough. The Zune is a joke and I wish I had never gotten one. It still doesn't work with my 32 bit Windows Vista computer. I called their support line and they had no idea why it didn't work. Great huh? Instead they spammed my house with annoying phone calls and refused to stop even after I emailed them numerous times.

Re: Microsoft blames clock bug for Zune glitches, promises magic fix

The Tim — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:39:00 -0000

Thanks for the link to our webcam! I sure hope this magical auto-fix trick works.