Xbox Live · announcement

25 Years of XBOX

Microsoft published this on 12 November 2026. Below is what our monitor is reading from Xbox Live’s own status feed right now, and how the servers have held up lately.

Checked 12 Nov 2026, 20:20 GMT·Re-checked every 5 min·Source: operator feed

Xbox Live servers right now

Operational

Announcement published	12 November 2026, 15:13 UTC
Uptime we measured	100% over 7 days
Last disruption	12 Oct, 4h

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What the announcement says

This message was just sent to Team XBOX employees globally. Team, Microsoft was founded on the belief that computing could put extraordinary capabilities in the hands of ordinary people. Gaming has been part of that story since the company’s beginning. In 1979, we released Microsoft Adventure, a text-based game that looked more like MS-DOS than […] The post 25 Years of XBOX app

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