In light of recent attacks on the Xbox Live service..

Honestly think it through. Is anybody really surprised. Think big picture of Microsoft as a company. Going back to Windows 95 they started to write insecure code and total bloatware. They were convicted by the US govt over Internet Explorer remember?

Think of the hundreds of security updates for whatever operating system you own. MS writes lousy, bloatware, and insecure code. This is not opinion, it is proven fact.

Why would the 360 be any different? Its all MS. They want control, and they want a monopoly on the world. That is nothing new. It has even gotten to the point that I can't even update my GPS, because MS won't let Garmin write Windows XP code for map
updates unless I upgrade from XP Pro to Windows 8.

They want to control every single PC in the world and more. They have no concern for their customers. Again, look at past history and you have your answers. Software written with as many security holes would never have been allowed out of the lab 25 years
ago. The 360 network is still MS software.

Why did I just have to download well over 100meg update just to do something to game chat? REALLY? There is no reason for a tiny component like that to take over 100 megs of my very limited monthly throughput allowance. And God forbid they actually let
you know how big the update is before you download it! If the operating system was written such that it has to be completely replaced to make and update, it was wirtten WRONG.

It is like anything else in the world, when the company won't listen to the customers, the only option is to hurt them in the pocket book (hint, hint), then they listen for a very short period of time.

Signing up for, or purchasing anything from MS implies you are accepting their bloatware and insecure software, and their ways of treating the rest of the world with contempt.

Yeah same here I got Netflix hulu animation and I can use any of it it's ***

Your Xbox Live had been down a month??? That's not my experience. Regardless, if it's been down that much this year and it wasn't on your end, report it to Support. They may agree to make it right by giving you a free month of Live.

If you have a 12 month card, you paid (at most, if you're not a savvy shopper) $60, which is the average price of a game (that you won't play daily for a year) or $5 a month.

Calm down and stop blowing this out of proportion.

To one side of the argument here that continues to state that we should "get over ourselves" and that we're blowing the issue out of proportion; it's easy to say that when the issue doesn't affect you, isn't it?

The last attack kept my Xbox Live shut down for around 3 days while all of my friends could play with ease. I spent three hours with someone on the support team before the issue was finally rectified. And again, the attack that happened almost 24 hours ago
is now keeping my service crippled and is affecting the Xbox 360 platform still.

I'm not stating anything extremist or that Microsoft is the most terrible company to exist. I simply expect a company that belongs to the richest man in the world to take the most dramatic and safe steps when dealing with the consumers that continue to power
it.

EVERYONE!!! Get over yourselves.... My xbox and live works and honestly always has and will!!! try to sign in again now seems to be fixed