Xbox Chief Technology Officer Scott Van Vliet, who was praised for his transparency following the major Xbox outage that left some users unable to play games - discs or digital - is back with another update . …
… 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. …