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It's being reported in lots of places this morning, but we didn't believe it until we saw it for ourselves: Microsoft's 30GB Zune music players have been failing everywhere today. Yes, just the older 30GB models—if you have one of the newer styles, such as the 8GB model we reviewed at the beginning of the year, you should be safe—and yes, everywhere; hundreds of reports have been flooding in from Zune owners all over the world. The problem began afflicting Zunes right around midnight,
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When we were first informed about this, we were a bit suspicious—could the problem even have inflicted a Zune that's been packed away in a suitcase for the last couple of days (used extensively during holiday travel) and hasn't been synced up with its host computer for more than a week? Yes, indeed—and the photographic evidence is right there to your left. Upon powering on, the Zune gets all the way through its boot process then stops once the progress bar reaches the far right position—and then goes no further. How long it will stay that way, we're not entirely sure; ours has been stuck that way for about 20 minutes now,
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As of this writing, Microsoft hasn't yet addressed the issue publicly, though we imagine we'll hear something from someone before it's time to flip to a new calendar. But more interesting even than learning what's causing this will be the aftermath: Since its inception, and despite bearing some very advanced sharing,
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