{"id":314,"date":"2008-12-31T17:35:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T00:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=314"},"modified":"2008-12-31T17:35:46","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T00:35:46","slug":"howd-that-one-get-by-qa-z2k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/12\/31\/howd-that-one-get-by-qa-z2k\/","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;d that one get by QA: Z2K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/images\/487507\/1_61_zune_group.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/>Ya can&#8217;t make stuff like this up.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/156240\/microsoft_says_leap_year_bug_caused_zune_failures.html\">From Ginny Mies at PC World<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Picture this: You&#8217;re gearing up to create a killer playlist on your 30GB Zune for your annual New Year&#8217;s bash. All of a sudden, your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/156222\/some_zunes_expire_along_with_2008.html\">Zune locks up<\/a>, reboots itself, and freezes. What the heck is going on?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,474690,00.html\">Fox News picks up the story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Later in the day, Microsoft finally figured it out. While writing some of the driver software, the world&#8217;s biggest software company had forgotten to compensate for leap years.<\/p>\n<p>The solution? Wait 24 hours until Jan. 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Joseph Flatley says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/12\/31\/zune-30gb-brickification-acknowledged-microsoft-says-to-wait-it\/\">on <em>Engadget<\/em><\/a>, let&#8217;s hope they get it right by 2012.<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there&#8217;s more:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even then, there may be a pesky digital-rights-management issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re a Zune Pass subscriber,&#8221; the posting continues, &#8220;you may need to sync your device with your PC to refresh the rights to the subscription content you have downloaded to your device.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft posting promised a fix by the end of the next leap year in December 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like they&#8217;re on top of it.<\/p>\n<p>Happy software quality\/DRM new year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ya can&#8217;t make stuff like this up.\u00c2\u00a0 From Ginny Mies at PC World: Picture this: You&#8217;re gearing up to create a killer playlist on your 30GB Zune for your annual New Year&#8217;s bash. All of a sudden, your Zune locks up, reboots itself, and freezes. What the heck is going on? Fox News picks up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[216,286,329,415],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-professional","tag-microsoft","tag-qa","tag-software-quality","tag-zune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}