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What do Xbox Live problems say about Microsoft's back-end infrastructure?

Whether you think the recently proposed class action lawsuit over Xbox Live service holiday outages is crazy or justified, there are undeniable problems with Microsoft's back-end Live infrastructure that Microsoft needs to address. Microsoft recently offered its 10 million Xbox Live subscribers a free arcade game as...

Tags: Data Center, Xbox Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Chrapaty, Data Centers, Game Players, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-07

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Microsoft adding 10,000 new datacenter servers a month

Today's trivia question: How big is Microsoft's back-end services infrastructure? Microsoft officials won't say how many servers total Microsoft has churning in its various datacenters. But Microsoft's corporate vice president of Global Foundation Services Debra Chrapaty is on record saying Microsoft is adding 10,000 new servers a...

Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-12

What do Xbox Live problems say about Microsoft's back-end infrastructure?

What do Xbox Live problems say about Microsoft's back-end infrastructure?maybe they should extend every ones account...a couple of months for free.RE: What do Xbox Live problems say about Microsoft's back-end infrastructurIt just goes to show.. You can have people with all the worlds highest degrees and they still haven't figured...

Tags: Game players, Games, Microsoft Corp., Xbox Live problem, Electronic Arts Inc., Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Xbox, game

Discussion threads 2008-01-07

Are you surprised? Microsoft beats Google with Facebook deal

Are you surprised? Microsoft beats Google with Facebook dealThe World According to Ballmer: Facebook risks being a 'fad'[url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article2573297.ece]FYI[/url]This is more of a defensive move by MS. They know they can not buy Facebookbut they are hoping with this that they can keep Google from buying Facebook.The problem is that it...

Tags: Social networking, YouTube Inc., Facebook, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-24

Riding the hockey stick: Scaling Web 2.0 software

With all the talk last week about MySpace becoming the #1 most visited site on the Web, there's also been a lot of talk about how Web 2.0 sites like MySpace handle their sharp growth rates. Because Web 2.0 sites explicitly leverage network effects, when they hit their...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-07-16