Comments on: Microsoft Zunes reportedly committing mass suicide

By: donotknowme

donotknowme — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:20:22 +0000

Microsoft’s new year gift…. This is the driver code responsible for millions of crashed ZUNEs.
We are not the only one screwing up code!! J

#define ORIGINYEAR 1980
BOOL ConvertDays(UINT32 days, SYSTEMTIME* lpTime)
{
int dayofweek, month, year;
UINT8 *month_tab;

//Calculate current day of the week
dayofweek = GetDayOfWeek(days);

year = ORIGINYEAR;

while (days > 365)
{
if (IsLeapYear(year))
{
if (days > 366)
{
days -= 366;
year += 1;
}
}
else
{
days -= 365;
year += 1;
}
}

By: Blackstar

Blackstar — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:16:54 +0000

It’s a feature.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:24:02 +0000

“somehow simultaneously killing all of the music players one after another” – it’s either ‘simultaneous’ or ‘one after another’ – cannot be both.

By: Andy S.

Andy S. — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:51:16 +0000

If this was occurring on the iPod, you’d be in Bizarro World, because Apple wouldn’t let a completely crippling defect of this magnitude out the door.

But you’re right, it’s a good thing it’s not the iPod, because then you’d have millions of pissed-off users. As it is, Microsoft will probably just put all of the 30GB Zune owners in a bus (don’t worry, they’ll all fit) and drive them to Redmond to offer an apology and a new Zune.

By: Aug

Aug — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:48:00 +0000

That picture is an second gen Zune. The problem is with the first gen Zunes.