I know this is a bit late, but I figured I put my opinion out there. It may or may not be true, who knows?
In early January, I was hearing complaints that the Xbox Live thing went down for apparently quite some time (somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 14 days) around the holidays. Then in about late January on Major Nelson's podcast, I heard that some legal action (that he couldn't discuss) had been taken against Microsoft regarding the outage.
Personally, I think the Xbox Live servers got hacked and Microsoft got really embarrassed about it. Now, I'm not saying I had anything to do with it (which I didn't) or that I know who did it (which I don't), I just think it's really odd that he as the Director of Programming for Xbox Live mentioned the lawsuit in the first place then not mention what exactly it was for (although by now it was probably about the outage). Anyways, the results from what I can tell are that the gamers who were affected get a free arcade game worth about $10 and a company apology. Heartfelt, I'm sure. Eh well, that's corporate culture for ya....
I only mention any of this at all because I notice that his website is down. I don't visit that often so I have no idea what went on, but conspiracy minded that I am I have to wonder .... =D
PS: Despite what the Gizmodo article says, I still think it was hackers =P because I can't believe that as much as MS likes to shake their balls about how big and powerful they are, they weren't ahead of the game (so to speak) on this.
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