Wednesday, January 22, 2014

The Xbox 360 Service Outage Affects Some Users

It seems that Microsoft is not competent enough to deal with its outage issues in the last few months. Outage problems are being reported on a daily basis in its various services, the latest service to encounter the outage problem is the Microsoft Xbox service.
Though the tech giant assures its users that they may contact the Microsoft problems and support chat number in the event of an error, not many has really benefited from the service. Folks who get in touch with the service were requested to wait until the next update. Surprisingly, they were not specifically told when they could expect the update to fix the problem. Let us try to look at what went wrong with the Microsoft Xbox Service.

About the Xbox Service Outage

Some users of Xbox 360 encountered the reported outage in the service. The problem affected mostly folks who had Xbox 360 service on their Windows 8 systems and mobile devices. The outage prevented many of them from accessing the video services and playing games.
Though the tech giant expressed regret for the inconvenience with a short note that assured the users that there was nothing to worry as the service would be resumed soon, a good number of users were still found experiencing the errors. Obviously, there were valid reasons for the Xbox 360 users to feel unhappy and unconvinced as Xbox 360 is an older gaming console and the recent launch of Xbox One has made it outdated. The Xbox 360 users have the fear that Microsoft might end the support services to boost the sales of the new one.
Meanwhile, some electronic media sources seemed convinced of Microsoft’s efforts to resume the service. Some of the media sources highlighted Microsoft’s acknowledgement of the issue and its efforts to deal with it. See a statement published in a popular electronic media the other day, which is reportedly quoting from a Microsoft source. “We’ve got our team engaged and they are working hard to get everything back to normal as expediently as possible.” The report goes on with some assuring message quoted from a press release from the tech giant, which says “We want you back to enjoying the full scope of the Xbox Live service as soon as possible. We’ve got our best people working to get everything back to normal.”
Well, if the tech giant is competent enough to release a long term fix for the outage issues, the users would be happy to hear it. Let us hope that the tech giant resumes its Microsoft problems and support chat number support service for the time being.