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[ChrisBieda]

Damn those leap years, always popping up with unpredictable irregularity.

[ILikeFlyin]

As usual...quality is job 2.3e at Microsoft.

[Ryan22158]

So, if this issue affects only the older 30gb zunes why is a 2nd generation zune shown in the picture?
I'm glad I bought an 80gb zune instead, he he.

[coastie65]

ChrisBieda said:

Damn those leap years, always popping up with unpredictable irregularity.

Leap years are predictable ( every 4 years) by everyone but Micro$oft. :D coastie65

[USCGx2]

Gotta love the somewhat surprised Microsoft spokesperson who can't believe anyone is still using an item purchased in 2006. Apparently he/she believes everyone should throw away their electronics on the 2ned anniversary!

[coastie65]

USCGx2 said:

Gotta love the somewhat surprised Microsoft spokesperson who can't believe anyone is still using an item purchased in 2006. Apparently he/she believes everyone should throw away their electronics on the 2ned anniversary!

Hey Coastie and welcome to the forum. I think that is just another example of Micro$oft's arrogance. coastie65

[ChrisBieda]

I wonder what havoc tonight's leap second will wreak?
Perhaps Microsoft isn't surprised that anyone would be using a two year-old product, only surprised that anyone is still using THIS two year-old product!

[husk]

The first gen Zunes still work because M.S has updated the firmware with every release. It caught them here but remember...IPOD never updates older generation units, they forse you to buy the newer unit.

So bash MS for the 24hr flu, but at least their gen 1 units are still working.

The gen 3 players are better in everyway than the IPOD.

[soundguyami]

Husk, that is not true. Ipod has and is continued to be updated as needed. They just don't require the bug fixes that the Zune does. Zune continues to be a inferior product and I am amazed it has lasted through two generations. The launch was one of the most embarrassing sales periods in Microsoft's history.

[crypt2121]

Soundguyami, that's a stretch. Both devices are adequate players; neither are exciting. We are talking about players here.

The Zune is good device that has been getting better with each release of either the hardware and the software. It does work better with other Microsoft equipment than the ipod does like media center and the x-box, a plus since windows and the x360 are so prevelant and the Zune store in its current incarnation is better designed than the iTunes store.

This is all much about nothing.

[Jewel]

LOL...this is comment gave me a good chuckle this evening!

[SkateNY]

Wrong. Very wrong. Apple doesn't force anyone to buy anything. That's the beauty of their products. Every generation iPod works just fine with Apple's iTunes. In case your head has been buried in the sand (or some other dark place) for the past seven years, iTunes is the premeire software application for music, video and applications.

Outside the Microsoft monopoly, people don't buy things because they're forced to by a given company; they buy them because they want them.

Oh-by-the-way...the original iPod was introduced during the second-worst recessionary period in my lifetime...one month after 9/11. And still flew off the shelves.

You dozen or so Zune owners are likey suffering from some kind of inferiority complex; that's no excuse for making up your own facts. Everyone has the right to his own opinion; not everyone has the right to his own facts.

[SkateNY]

Great. Microsoft innovates a new bug, for a relatively new product (one Microsoft year is roughly equivalent to seven human years -- check out the time between OS releases, e.g.), and then only discovers it when it's too late. Procrastination (read: incompetence) seems to be one of their strengths, if not also a social skill.

Bad enough that tax payers, consumers and businesses footed a bill totalling hundreds of millions of dollars for their Y2K debacle. (Oh. We forgot the century was turning. Our bad.) Now, owners of their failed "iPod killer" have to suffer yet another insult, beyond a significant degree of insult that obtains from the simple fact of owning a Zune.

When does it end? It ends when Microsoft discovers a bug that dissolves their incompetent corporate mismanagement. Oh, wait. That bug was already discovered but, because Microsoft is Microsoft, noboday cared. Except for those zanie Microsoft Kool Aid drinkers who seem to believe that every POS Microsoft creates is touched by Midas himself.

Thanks again Microsoft. You're nothing if not consistent.

[SkateNY]

Not even a good effort, crypt. That fact that you're not excited about either product, has nothing to do with whether or not either product is "exciting." Look a the sales figures. Look at user satisfaction. Look at the worldwide enthrallment of the iPod...seven years strong now. Gee, not enough of a track record for one as implacable as you.

You obviously don't own an iPod. If you had one in your hands for a few days, you'd know why software developers love making a fortune on it through the app store, and you'd know why users are lining developers pockets by using it as PC in their pockets.

It's the bain of all Microsoft shills and apologists: by the time you smell the coffee, it's much too late to wake up.

[SkateNY]

Great. Microsoft innovates a new bug, for a relatively new product (one Microsoft year is roughly equivalent to seven human years -- check out the time between OS releases, e.g.), and then only discovers it when it's too late. Procrastination (read: incompetence) seems to be one of their strengths, if not also a social skill.

Bad enough that tax payers, consumers and businesses footed a bill totalling hundreds of millions of dollars for their Y2K debacle. (Oh. We forgot the century was turning. Our bad.) Now, owners of their failed "iPod killer" have to suffer yet another insult, beyond a significant degree of insult that obtains from the simple fact of owning a Zune.

When does it end? It ends when Microsoft discovers a bug that dissolves their incompetent corporate mismanagement. Oh, wait. That bug was already discovered but, because Microsoft is Microsoft, noboday cared. Except for those zanie Microsoft Kool Aid drinkers who seem to believe that every POS Microsoft creates is touched by Midas himself.

Thanks again Microsoft. You're nothing if not consistent.

[jimbobofmaine]

I love my ZUNE, but to think that after 2 years, Microsoft wants to stop supporting what I bought new in 2006! Do not think so. Apple is going keep the market with this strategy.

[crypt2121]

Skate,

I did own an iPod as well as a few other products over the years. I also have owned Macs, run Linux, Solaris, and Windows.

According to your post Bread should be exciting - they sell allot of that during recessions as well.

Again, it's a player - have fun with yours.

[SkateNY]

Wrong. According to my post, bread has nothing to do with being exciting. Bread, and/or carbohydrates in the same class, is a necessity for life for the vast majority of the world's population. I don't make the rules; I only report them -- and sometimes break them -- when need be.

By definition, discretionary purchases are not vital for survival.

You didn't miss the point; you pole-vaulted over it.

[crypt2121]

Ah, but the type of bread you buy IS discretionary ... most popular, ubiquitous brand in bread ?? ask anyone, "WONDER".