Microsoft's Zune players freeze on New Year's Eve

Microsoft more like Microfail. At everything.

Well, let's see: an entire generation that is now so stupid that they cannot understand the difference between "then" and "than"; how does that not lead to more bugs in programs? "Spelling is optional!" they bray in their forums - as if a computer could somehow magically understand their intent, regardless.

Think about that, the next time your Zune freezes up or your Windows crashes... or perhaps while the aircraft you're sitting in is on its final approach to landing.

That's what they get for buying the zune. I like microsoft computers but, when it comes to mp3's, it's apple all the way.
And by the way docatomic, only the moronic members of my generation can't can't distinguish between homophones. The rest of us are actualy fairly inteligent.

"can't can't"? "actualy"? "inteligent"?

I rest my case.

Earls, Don't you mean "Macro fail"?

Docatomic, I agree. These retards couldn't pass the third grade. Its sad to admit, and although I love a lot of things about the latest generation, They can't can't spel werth a shit. Like, such as, per se.

theophys, then and than are not homophones.

I get a little tired of people complaining about bugs in software. Show me a piece of bug-free software and I'll see software that does almost nothing.

Modern software is incredibly complex if you cover all aspects of how it is executed. Executing a single bug-free line of code takes thousands of machine instructions that involve dozens of hardware components-over which the software developer has no control.

We've been building structures for 10,000 years and we still construct buildings that fall down from their own design. We've been writing software for only 60 years. Jesus, cut the devs a break.

x646, you are correct. Anyone who has done serious programming knows that no software of value is 100% stable. Although the above problem seems a simple one, in general, it is not practical to test for every possible combination of events. In any case the correlation docatom is trying to make fails in logic since syntax type errors would never make it passed the compiler or assembler. Most who complain could'nt write a hundred line cobol program on a pdp-8 without crashing it.