Xbox Live Down for Repairs This Week
The online service will not be around on Tuesday, so you better start thinking what you will be doing with all the free time.
Microsoft has done a good job of getting everybody hooked on Xbox Live. Not only can you play games online - as long as you pay the extra money for an Xbox Live Gold membership - but there's also the Xbox Live Marketplace to think of. Now Microsoft is pulling the plug - but only for a day.
From 8.00am on Tuesday, 17 October, the entire Xbox Live service as well as Xbox.com will be down for up to 24 hours. As a FAQ at Xbox.com states, the service is going down for "scheduled maintenance", in preparation for the autumn updates to the Xbox 360.
A big part of that update will be for native 1080p resolution support - that's Sony's self-styled Full HD, which runs at 1,080 lines of vertical resolution scanned progressively.
Microsoft has given Xbox Live a major push in this generation already, and according to recent numbers people are biting. The company said at its X06 conference in late September that around 60 per cent of all Xbox 360 owners have connected to the service.
For more details on the downtime, check out Xbox.com.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo
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