What happened to the 30-gigabyte Zunes, “we were there
January 8, 2009
The other day, cerrábamos the year, with the news that the Zune 30 GB of Microsoft were blocked all at once. We had no way to implement any of them.
For more blogs and websites (eg FayerWayer here) has given technical explanation of how this failure has occurred. I recommend reading these articles, but we have something better, we have a collection of facts, let what happened three years ago, when it was preparing the launch of the Zune to the market, the real explanation of something that was made sale …
It all started when burdened because Microsoft programmers did not have enough to finish the Zune software and Windows Vista, decided to hire Tildenrone as a company that would develop programs Zune. Tilderone is the development and deployment of enterprise software, the world’s largest global, was a guarantee of quality and that everything would be fine.
But the project began to jam. When the team found evidence that Microsoft to raise or lower the volume of the Zune, which had six pressing keys, Tilderone claimed that the only functional that he had to increase or decrease the volume with some keys and said nothing of it had to press. So the development of the Zune’s budget was depleted by resolving these things.
To provide more flexibility for testing, Microsoft has hired another big company, specializing in project monitoring: Adenis. They sent their best technicians, with its application star, the ePWoman, a management program testing. Test equipment from Microsoft, could not prove what they wanted, but they had assigned tasks in ePWoman day and they showed. So, some weeks are going to play Xbox, and could not sleep ..
As the departure date of the project, missing only three weeks for those leaving, there appeared a senior partner of Microsoft. This was eating with testers and told them the batallitas that took effect in the year 2000. So one of the testers, to re-test, put the Zune in the day 31 December 2000. And that was extinguished.
The tester for Microsoft did not understand anything. So I went to ePWoman and gave a high incidence. But after half an hour, had been rejected because the developers fail to Tildenrone was correct. The tester for Microsoft, again and again to repeat the test to fail, so we reopened the incident. The Tildenrone again rejected, arguing that they work well. At the final weekly meeting between gerifaltes was brought up the topic. The Adenis, found that what was still wrong and asked for explanations … Tilderone said they tested these in the last days of 2006 and that they failed.
A group of testers of Microsoft, agreed to the source code and discovered that the fault was caused by a loop that did not take into account leap years. In fact you could play by putting the December 31, 2004 or 2008 … asked developers to change the status output of the loop.
Tilderone presented a draft change software (CNPS from now) and appreciated the efforts of the change in 1134 hours, 31 minutes and 16 seconds. Dolares past, it was a cost for the project of $ 1,300,000. Microsoft heads met and decided to pay the order and to undertake the CNPS. But it was only a week to the departure of the Zune to the market. Tilderone programmers had to do in other CNPS that week and did not have enough programmers to everything. So it was a scheduled high-level meeting, attended by Steve Ballmer, the chief Tilderone manager and project manager of Adenis …
The head of the draft Adenis, made a presentation with 46 PowerPoint slides, in the end the conclusion was clear, had to choose between two CNPS (software change):
- The pressing of the play listening to the music
- Fix shutdown the last day of the leap year.
Steve Ballmer called statistics. And they are presented. There was a leap year every four, only 27% of users turned the MP3 player every day, while the play button, press it needed all year, every year. The choice was clear, to go out on dates, it would make the leap to CNPS year second phase. It was a schedule for the two months of the release of Zune, a patch was sent to buyers with the code of the leap year fixed.
But since leaving the Zune, was fixing Tilderone CNPS other and no one remembered as the leap year … until December 31 of 2008.
But for those dates, and was president Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, the project manager of Tilderone, was supersocio, the manager of Adenis was CEO of another company … who cares?
Well, if anyone cares, the files were sought for the project and said goodbye to the tester that Microsoft had discovered the flaw in the year 2006 ….
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