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Xbox LIVE Downtime Coming Soon

November 16, 2008 at 11:00 PM · 0 comments

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Microsoft’s [MSFT] Major Nelson (yeah, it’s Larry Hryb) reports that there will be another Xbox LIVE service outage, in line with the upcoming NXE launch.
The outage will be on November 17, 2008, starting at 2:00 AM PST (about 5:00 AM EST), and it is expected to last around 45 minutes or so. This impacts the [...]

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Xbox LIVE Operations Resumed

September 30, 2008 at 8:18 AM · 2 comments

in Gaming, Services

Earlier, we’d reported the Xbox LIVE service interruption for system maintenance purposes, as well as to prepare for the upcoming new Xbox LIVE Experience software upgrade.
A scant couple of hours ago, Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox LIVE game service became available again, after a bit more than one (1) day’s worth of outage.
N.B.
Other related Javamancy posts (in reverse chronological [...]

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Larry Hryb (”Major Nelson” of Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox Live fame) had posted earlier that the downtime for Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com is:

A preparatory exercise for the still-coming-soon new Xbox LIVE experience that was demo’ed during this year’s game conferences (like E3);
Impacting both the Xbox LIVE service and the “My Xbox” section of Xbox.com only;
Not introducing [...]

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Downtime for Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com

September 29, 2008 at 3:00 AM · 3 comments

in Gaming, Services

As previously announced, Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com will be experiencing downtime, presumably for system maintenance, synchronization, and upgrades– in about one minute.
What remains to be seen are:

When are the systems coming back online (one day downtime?), and will they be available at the same time?
What are the new features, and how warm will [...]

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Up and Down: Upcoming Downtime
On September 29, 2008, starting at 12:01 AM PT (3:01 AM ET), Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com will be shut down for system upgrades and other changes for approximately a day. Those of you who frequent the Xbox 360 Dashboard may have noticed the system bulletin concerning this.
Keep in mind that quite [...]

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A few days after the severe outage started, Netflix shipping has started up again, hoping to reach its pre-outage volume.
As reported by Associated Press, shipments began rolling out again late Friday (8/15/2008), after suffering a severe service interruption on Tuesday (8/12/2008). As incentive to retain customers, the impacted customers are going to be awarded as [...]

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An update to the initial post about the massive Netflix system outage:
A CNBC reporter, Jim Goldman, just reported that some Netflix customers were sent E-mails by the company discussing the system-wide shipping outage. He says he talked with a contact at Netflix sometime after 11:00 AM ET today to follow up, and he was told that [...]

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Netflix Outage Continues Unabated

August 14, 2008 at 11:35 AM · 2 comments

in Services

As the Netflix [NFLX] systemwide outage continues from this past Tuesday (two days ago, 8/12/2008), it has been noted that NO shipments of DVD’s went out on the day of system failure (Tuesday), a very small amount of shipments went out yesterday (Wednesday), and NO shipments went out today (yet). Supposedly the Netflix engineers are [...]

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