The News Gets Worse for Poor, Pitiful Microsoft

Posted by rsmiller on Jan 1, 2009 2:45 PM EDT
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It's 2009 and I'm sure the powers that be at Microsoft are hoping it's going to be a good one without any tears, but even as the old year closed, the news kept getting worse for the software giant.

Just yesterday the web surged with news that 30 GB Zunes were freezing up, apparently the victim of a Y2K-type clock bug where the Zunes rebooted and froze as of January 1, 2009 Pacific Time. And this morning, Ars Technica reports that rumors are flying about a massive layoff on January 15 involving 17 percent of the worldwide work force. Not exactly the stuff that dreams are made of.

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Easily ties into MS's other troubles vainrveenr 0 1,269 Jan 1, 2009 4:28 PM

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