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.
A programmer somewhere just lost his job.
I think it was the same guy that mixed up feet and meters on the Mars Explorer.
Someone found a Zune in our work car-park the week before Christmas and it is still unclaimed. The owner is probably too embarrassed – it’s BROWN fer frak’s sake!
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