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Xbox Live Says "No, Thank You" To Possible PSN-Outage Advantage

Posted on Friday, June 24 @ 10:09:42 Eastern by

I wrote a while back about Microsoft's PSN-outage comments and how I thought they were full of shit. Unfortunately, some individuals seemed only to read the headline, and then where they could reach me via e-mail. Thankfully, Microsoft Exec Dennis Durkin is doing my job for me and clarifying:

It's bad for the industry that this has happened to Sony. We don't wish that upon anybody and you've seen we've been actually pretty quiet on the subject because we don't want to appear to even be looking to be taking advantage of somebody else's situation like that. That's just not in our DNA.

Over time, all of the bets Microsoft is making are about cloud bets. We want customers to feel confident about the quality of the service they're getting, the security of the data that they have and the security of the private information that they have. As a company, you can look back 8, 9 years ago, when Bill Gates wrote his Trustworthy Computing Memo that basically said, "We need to change the way we architect our products and it has to be designed into the way we architect our products and services." So it's in our DNA, across the company.

I swear to God if I get called a fanboy of anything after I post this I'm going to post only about PC games from now on.

Haha, just kidding, I'll post everything.
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  • shandog137
    shandog137
    Joined: Mar 2007
    Posted: Jun 24th, 2011 at 11:47 am
    What if I called you a PC fanboy...?
    0 1
  • Nick_Tan
    Nick_Tan
    Joined: Jul 2006
    Posted: Jun 24th, 2011 at 11:57 am
    After Microsoft recent (or intentional) $1 glitch Xbox Live renewal, I think they ARE trying to take advantage. And wouldn't they? It's not that they have to try to get an advantage; they just win by default by having a service that works whenever PSN is down.
    0 2
  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Jun 24th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
    Ill forward this idea to them for ya maybe you'll get a letter too :)
    0 0
  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Jun 24th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
    Come to the darkside young Xbox Fanboy.
    4 0
  • OniAkuma2126
    OniAkuma2126
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jun 24th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
    So are you still calling Microsoft out over all of this? Looks to me they are saying they have customer security " In our DNA " but taking advantage of a competitors outage " not in our DNA ". Nick has it right...Microsoft in that situation had an advantage only by default as out of the 3 consoles only PSN and Xlive were anything to be proud of.
    0 1
  • OniAkuma2126
    OniAkuma2126
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jun 24th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
    Btw...the fine print at the end cracks me up :)
    0 1

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