Problem with Zune was Toshiba’s fault, not Microsoft’s

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re: Problem with Zune was Toshiba’s fault, not Microsoft’s

Ocean — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:29:29 GMT

Its not the Zune, it's he fact that a device took a day off and the manufacturer shrugged its shoulders...

re: Problem with Zune was Toshiba’s fault, not Microsoft’s

RunTimeError — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:04:44 GMT

I honestly cannot believe people are getting this worked up over first gen Zunes.

re: Problem with Zune was Toshiba’s fault, not Microsoft’s

Waethorn — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:01:09 GMT

BTW: Is Apple to blame for MobileMe, or do you blame the open source developers that they stole the code from?

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re: Problem with Zune was Toshiba’s fault, not Microsoft’s

Ocean — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:17:53 GMT

I'd bets LOVED the publicity.

Millions watched the evening news and said "whats a Zune?"

Too bad it wasn't a better introduction.

re: Problem with Zune was Toshiba’s fault, not Microsoft’s

fria — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:28:56 GMT

You put your name on it, it's your responsability.

re: Problem with Zune was Toshiba’s fault, not Microsoft’s

volwrath — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:48:24 GMT

@subzero --

yea but appl is to blame for no a2dp, no multitasking, no turnbyturn gps, no slingbox, and a hell of a lot of fart applications and a crappy app store

re: Problem with Zune was Toshiba’s fault, not Microsoft’s

DRWAM — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:25:05 GMT

Good point Mike.

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gorath — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:03:17 GMT

the programmer should lose his job?

holy crap, if all programmers who made an error that small were fired, then we'd have no programmers left.

re: Problem with Zune was Toshiba’s fault, not Microsoft’s

mikegalos@msn.com — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:42:23 GMT

DRWAM

"It looks like it pays to pass gas!"

Or it pays to not deal with the insurance companies!

re: Problem with Zune was Toshiba’s fault, not Microsoft’s

DRWAM — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:33:23 GMT

Mike, they get paid more too. The ENT doc that removed my daughter's tonsils got a whopping $260 paid of the submitted $1000 bill [and I did not have to pay the balance as per my insurance], but the anesthesiologist got the full $800 for the anesthesia during surgery and another $800 for post op care, for a total of $1600. The ENT doc retired because he was tired if getting hosed by insurance companies. It looks like it pays to pass gas!

re: Problem with Zune was Toshiba’s fault, not Microsoft’s

subzerohitman721 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:20:05 GMT

Sorry Paul, but that doesn't hold water with me. I'm force to conclude that both Toshiba and Microsoft are equally at fault.

Sony's bum batteries impacts both the battery maker and the device manufactuer. They each took a hit becuase of the battery debacle. So in this case, both Microsoft whose name is on the device and Toshiba who manufactuered it get equal parts of Blame Game.

It also falls on the programmer who should lose his job or face some serious disiplinary action. Also a review of the testing procedures to see how this bug got through.

@Lindy,

Apple's activation servers failed just the same as AT&T's. So both AT&T and Apple are to blame for that debacle. That has been acknowledged by every tech website I can find on the web. So please, don't give Apple an undeserved pass, when Jobs himself admitted they dropped the ball.

re: Problem with Zune was Toshiba’s fault, not Microsoft’s

mikegalos@msn.com — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:15:34 GMT

DRWAM

And that's why I tell anybody going into surgery to suck up to their anesthesiologist. They never get any respect and a patient who actually treats them well usually recovers much faster.

re: Problem with Zune was Toshiba’s fault, not Microsoft’s

robertsjoe — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:08:37 GMT

Just an example of the rants, bias and hypocrisy is right here community.winsupersite.com/.../apple-tax-2-0.aspx

Post about the Microsoft tax. Oh no, wait - you wouldn't.