XBOX has already cost Microsoft billions of dollars in losses, but the company carries on. It insists it must evolve as old business models gradually dry up and perish. Yahoo! has this new piece which almost empirically confirms that failure rates are still a major issue.
My Xbox 360: Dead again
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Instead, I'm sitting here looking at yet another dead Xbox 360, and wondering: Do I bother buying some bubble wrap and a cardboard box to send this thing back? Should I just cough up $200 and start over with a new Xbox? Or should I call it quits and go all-in with my PlayStation 3, which hasn't skipped a beat since I bought it more than a year ago?
"The service has been suspended due to an unforeseen technical issue." Sky said in a statement. "Sky Player engineers are hard at work to resolve the problem. We expect to have the full service available on Wednesday."
Microsoft has said that it is "investigating" the technical problems delaying the launch of Sky Player on Xbox Live.