A leapyear bug froze my Zune and thousands of others

I was getting ready to go on my trip to the mountains for new years and thought I would charge the Zune for the drive up. After plugging it up, I noticed the startup screen froze at 100%. I figured I would leave it and let it finish charging. After a few hours, I came back to it and it had not even moved at all. I was pretty perturbed because all the normal ways to reset it were not working.

I was getting ready to leave on my trip soon, so I couldn't want to wait for the battery to die on it's own. I eventually decided that I would have to open it up and detach the battery, thereby resetting itself. This ended up working and I had a fully charged Zune for the trip.

So when I got to the cabin, I mentioned to a friend about playing some music from it and he asked me if I had heard about the crash with all the Zunes. I was blown away when he said that tens of thousands of Zunes all had this same problem.

I mean seriously. How can this really happen. I sort of expect things to freeze if it's running MS software, but every time it happens it makes me even more upset. Can they ever get it right?

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