Xbox Live is Back, Albeit A Little Late

Microsoft’s Xbox Live gaming service is back online this morning after a scheduled but lengthy maintenance outage. The service, which has more than 12 million members, was scheduled to be offline for up to 24 hours Monday before coming back online at 3 am Eastern time this morning. By 5 am gaming sites were noting that the site was still offline, with one site going so far as to report that “Xbox Live Has Failed.” The phrase “Xbox Live still down” zoomed to the top of Google Trends.

Not to worry, Xbox fans. The maintenance just ran slightly past its scheduled window. Microsoft’s Larry Hryb (better known in gaming circles by his gamertag of  Major Nelson) kept users informed with updates on Twitter.

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About Rich Miller

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.