Xbox Live "up and running," now with no caveats.

After treading deeply into some crazy Orwellian statusbox doublespeak, it looks like Xbox Live is finally up and running with no lingering issues or caveats. According to Major Nelson, the entire Live team has been working "day and night" to get things sorted, and while we appreciate their efforts over the holidays, we're still of the opinion that Live members should be getting a free week or month -- you gotta deliver when you run a paid service.

Update: Now it's down again! Status message gives the old line about intermittent issues and engineers working on fixes. Ugh, could the timing on these outages be any worse?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 30th 2007 7:50PM]

Still down in Raleigh, NC. Had a account that could be recover for the past 3 days (brothers account), so i used mine which didnt need to be recovered, but now mine wont even sign in nor recover and my network connection is fine.

[mgrochowalski Posted Dec 30th 2007 11:54PM]

Now it updates the time and signs in for a bit, but then says it can't connect to messenger and disconnects without further notice.

[mgrochowalski Posted Dec 31st 2007 12:02AM]

Also, people could try doing a partial chargeback on their credit card if they think they should be compensated. I bet Microsoft would appreciate that...

[TimT Posted Dec 31st 2007 12:48AM]

I've been humming along on my PS3 no problem...and it's free, I just download the demos, they are enough for me and most of them show off some type of online play, Haven't made any friends, the social network side of the PS3 suck, but I think in the long run that is what that social life MMO think sony is going to be trying to fix that problem...And my parents love the blu-ray so for me the PS3 is the better system.

[MarineIK Posted Dec 31st 2007 8:42AM]

Its crap! All day yesterday down and this morning!!!! Couldn't play Madden..Such BS. I want a free month or something. Uckin microsoft

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 31st 2007 11:47AM]

we should get free live anyways
look at the ps3
they get all this shit with their system now, for the same price as a 360
built in wifi, blu ray (basically HD's equivilant), and free internet, they don't pay to play online...