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I'm getting the same thing, but it was my understanding that it was linked to those other problems with Live itself.

I've noticed the same problem lately -- no network connection unless I run the network test.

Also, FWIW, my 360 gets online by way of a wireless bridge (Linksys WGA54G).

Major Nelson: No More Xbox Live Updates Due To Lawsuit

In his latest Major Nelson podcast Microsoft's Larry Hryb has announced that due to a lawsuit against Microsoft he will no longer be able to give out any more updates on the status of Xbox Live. According to his statement, "I can’t say anything so I apologize, but go talk to the lawyer… That’s all I can say about that." Microsoft suffered major problems with its Xbox Live online service during the Christmas-New Year's holiday period due to far more sign ups for the service than predicted. A class-action lawsuit was filed earlier in January claiming the downtime represented a breach of contract.

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What's the most Think Secretive company we know?

Bat wrote:

What's the most Think Secretive company we know?

Separate issue entirely.

Though since you bring it up there is a bit of a difference between no being upfront with if your service is up or down and suing a site to try to get information on who's leaking insider information. True the latter is more than a bit questionable but it is somewhat understandable. The former is not good business sense and in the context of a response to a lawsuit it comes of as petulant.

To be honest though, if I were a customer I'd more likely sue over false information or a deliberate lack of information on service status than over a service interruption and I'd still wouldn't be all that likely to sue even then.

::daydreams about WiiGear::

Bat wrote:

ScifiterX wrote:

Bat wrote:

What's the most Think Secretive company we know?

Separate issue entirely.

Though since you bring it up there is a bit of a difference between no being upfront with if your service is up or down and suing a site to try to get information on who's leaking insider information. True the latter is more than a bit questionable but it is somewhat understandable. The former is not good business sense and in the context of a response to a lawsuit it comes of as petulant.

Not really. The Think Secret reference was just a reminder of the secretive nature of Apple, and the near-infamous rep of Apple Legal. MS has been fairly forthcoming about this to date, tho it's relative. They still seem puzzled about it themselves, or it would've been nailed and solved ere now. I have no doubt that the clamming up is a direct result of the suit.

I put this in the most recent thread, but perhaps it should've gone here. It's ground we've been over. FYI, XBL only went down for a few hours, once. Since then, tho, there have been lingering issues affecting different users to varying degrees.

XBL gained at least a million members, perhaps more, in December- more than a 10% increase.

I've a feeling that if, say, the iTunes store had intermittent issues, they likely wouldn't even be acknowledged, and from past history, any threads in the Apple support forums would be disappeared pronto.

To be honest though, if I were a customer I'd more likely sue over false information or a deliberate lack of information on service status than over a service interruption and I'd still wouldn't be all that likely to sue even then.

Updates have been frequent until now.

I never said the updates weren't. I was merely trying point out that it is the worst sort of overreaction one can sort of expect in their situation. Instead of going out of the way to make things seem like an aberration occur and they were going out of their way to correct it and keep their customers informed about that correction (which would be good PR and make the lawsuit look all the more frivolous), they chose to alienate the customers more willing to believe that and give the lawsuit against more ammunition.

Apple's secretive nature plays into it in no way. Sure that situation exists but it's neither here nor there as protecting IP & covering one's ass over a screw up are entirely different things.