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		wavephorm on March 1, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Confirmed: Windows Azure downtime caused by leap-d... I thought this sounded familiar: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9124638/Zune_chokes_o...

panarky on March 1, 2012 [–]

The Zune leap-year bug bricked the players on December 31.

Money quote: "Microsoft says it will issue a bug fix for the device so that this problem won't occur again in 2012, the next leap year."

tazzy531 on March 1, 2012 | [–]

Maybe that's why they cancelled the Zune in 2011 to avoid having to fix the leap year bug.

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