More information can be found at the links provided, but Microsoft is not starting the year off strong. Most media outlets led with a story about how the Zune, Microsoft’s digital music player, was hit with a glitch in how its internal clock accounts for leap year. Then, it’s industry leading web browser, Internet Explorer, lost some major market share. An unfortunate start to 2009 for Microsoft.
Zune article: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/the-day-microsoft-zunes-stood-still/
IE losing market share: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123092719894149695.html#articleTabs%3Dcomments
I didn’t even know microsoft had a digital music player until the story about the glitch, so maybe that was the problem to start with.
I saw this article on Slashdot and thought their satire of Microsoft had gone too far.
Then I realized it wasn’t satire…