… The client bug has been fixed in an upcoming release, which starts rolling out today, August 10, and becomes mandatory August 17." Hopefully this means another outage of this magnitude is unlikely to happen again. …
… Features that require sign-in like most games, apps and social activity won't be available." These kinds of server outages only usually last for an hour or two, and we'll let you know when it's fixed.
… Xbox engineers are working to fix the issues, but the outage does raise wider concerns around digital ownership. …
… Here's what Xbox's CTO said caused the outage: "Late last night, a licensing service that sits outside of XBOX, but which XBOX depends upon, began failing. …