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Why are we still having to deal with downtime?

Xbox LIVE will be unavailable for approx. 3 hrs on April 1st from 2pm PDT

Huh?  With all that virtualization, load balancing, and other service abstraction strategies we have today, why do we still have to deal with scheduled downtime?

I understand that we cannot plan on ever getting rid of an unscheduled outage because “stuff happens” but we certainly have at our fingertips methods that can avoid scheduled downtime once and for all.

I’m just bitter because it may take a bite out of my Halo3 Team Slayer.  The Master Chief would never allow for scheduled downtime!  It must be the work of the Covenant.  The fight continues…

—tk

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