{"id":7763,"date":"2013-12-31T23:16:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T23:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/zune-2k-day\/"},"modified":"2013-12-31T23:16:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T23:16:01","slug":"zune-2k-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/zune-2k-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Zune 2K Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-4139\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F12%2Fzune-30-fail.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4139]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4140\" alt=\"zune-30-fail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/9079b__zune-30-fail-178x300.jpg\" width=\"178\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>December 31, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Playfully nicknamed \u201cZune 2K\u201d day after Y2K day, <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fbgr.com%2F2008%2F12%2F31%2F30gb-zunes-dying-en-masse-across-the-globe%2F\" target=\"_blank\">owners of Microsoft Zune devices began reporting that their devices had malfunctioned and refused to boot up<\/a>. The problem turned out to be a\u00a0\u201da bug in the internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a leap year,\u201d as described by Microsoft. The problem would fix itself on Jan 1, 2009 if users let the battery run down and then reset the device on that day.\u00a0Certainly, the publicity from this gaffe couldn\u2019t have helped the perception on the Zune in the marketplace, as by this time Apple\u2019s iPhone had started its dominant rise.\u00a0Microsoft said it would issue a bugfix for the device so that this problem wouldn\u2019t re-occur in 2012, but by that time, Microsoft had already killed the Zune line of devices so I\u2019m not sure if the problem was ever actually fixed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/9079b__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/12\/31\/zune-2k-day\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 31, 2008 Playfully nicknamed \u201cZune 2K\u201d day after Y2K day, owners of Microsoft Zune devices began reporting that their devices had malfunctioned and refused to boot up. The problem turned out to be a\u00a0\u201da bug in the internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a leap year,\u201d as described by Microsoft. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3000],"class_list":["post-7763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-zune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}