If you've been having issues doing stuff on Xbox Live, you're not alone.
Well, you are alone, because you can't connect to your online friends,
but other people are having problems too.
Since last night, Xbox Live has been having various service outages,
reported on its status page. Last night, it was Netflix; today, the site
reports issues with creating, managing, and recovering accounts, and
with creating, maintaining, or joining matches in Call of Duty: Black
Ops and Halo Reach.
We're checking with Microsoft to determine the cause of these outages,
and if possible the expected duration. Did the pizza guy trip over a
cord, or was it something more serious? Like, maybe some pizza also got
into one of the server's
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