ID: IRCNE2012071546
Date: 2012-07-10
According to "techworld", Microsoft fully restored its Xbox Live service after problems last Friday prevented an undetermined number of users from logging into the online gaming service.
Microsoft first informed users about the problems via Twitter at 11:20 a.m. ET. The service issues prevented some users from logging into Xbox Live from their Xbox console and from the Xbox website.
Users also had difficulties accessing Zune.net, where they can buy music and movies for smartphones, PCs and tablets.
"Our engineering teams worked quickly to fix the problem and the service is online and fully operational," a Microsoft spokeswoman said in an email.
The Xbox competes with the Nintendo Wii and Sony's PlayStation -- which has also had downtime issues. Sony's PlayStation Network was hacked and portions of the service went down for nearly a month, and personal information of more than 77 million users was compromised during the incident.
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