Microsoft has scheduled simultaneous service outages for its Xbox Live and Zune platforms this Monday, September 29th, starting at 12:01 PST. These “regularly scheduled maintenance” outages will take up to 24 hours for Xbox Live and up to 48 hours for Zune. Read on for the details.
Xbox Live will be offline, and you won’t even be able to bitch about it because the official Xbox forums will be down as well. Be-masked Xbox spokesperson Major Nelson confirms that there will be no updates whatsoever to the service, especially not the Xbox Experience update due this fall, so quit bugging him about it. Zune, for its part, will lose Zune Social, the Zune Marketplace and the Zune.net forums, again with absolutely no new features when the service is back up and running. So, commenters, how are you going to deal with what I’ve just decided to name the Great Microsoft Service Outage of 2008? Read a book? Go to work? Not care because you’ve never even seen a Zune in real life? [Xbox Live's Major Nelson and Zune Insider]
Matty
Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 8:45 PMThose services will be down so the current services will work better and future services can be implemented with little trouble… I don’t understand why people are so harsh on Microsoft. I own a Zune and the software actually does heaps in terms of data collection. Every time I play a song in the software or on the device, it gets updated on the server and shows everyone else. There might only be 2 million zunes out there worldwide, but thats less than 2 million people constantly playing music and the servers constantly being updated with new information and all they’re doing is using their programs/device!
My zune will still work and thats all that matters to me.
Skra
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 11:02 AMI though in the e-mail Ms sent to all xbox users & etc it said “14 hours” not 48?