Saturday
03Jan2009
Zune Bug - Source Revealed
January 3, 2009 
As you may have heard, on New Years Eve, 30GB Zunes everywhere stopped working. That's it! They just stopped working! When this happened, Microsoft's solution for the problem was to simply "do nothing". The next day, the Zunes were all working again.
Weird, huh?
So What Happened?
The Zunes all "fixed themselves" on New Year's Day, so that would lead people to believe the bug was somehow related to the new year (Y2K arriving late?). Close, but that's not quite it. Instead, the bug actually occurred because the Zune's software didn't properly handle our extra day this year.
The source code for the problem at hand has been released and you can download it here for your own personal enjoyment. I have to warn you though, the code does contain goto statements.
tagged Bug, Code, Microsoft, Programming, Zune
Bug, Code, Microsoft, Programming, Zune 