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Strange Bedfellows: XBox and Skype

In the list of post holiday "experiences", here are a few of the highlights for 2007:

  • December 26th sale purchases
  • Setting New Year's Resolutions
  • Waiting... and waiting... and waiting... for your Xbox Live session

It appears that Xbox suffered similar issues in December to the Skype "network" downtime this Fall. While the technical issues were quite a bit different, the end result was similar... Lots of consumers unhappy with their product/service due to downtime.

Being a fairly experienced computer user ( ...and former systems admin... ), I find the "regular" Windows updates to be annoying. I can just imagine what the average 13-16 year old thinks of having to wait for an XBox to download updates before they can start playing online.

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  Posted by jmyers on January 9, 2008 8:00 AM |

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