http://www.cerebrawl.com/2006/10/microsoft-and-on-schedule-delivery/ Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:11:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.cerebrawl.com/2006/10/microsoft-and-on-schedule-delivery/comment-page-1/#comment-698 Odyssey » Turbulent times in the reliable software industry Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:31:35 +0000 http://phoenix.gargs.com/blog/2006/10/18/microsoft-and-on-schedule-delivery/#comment-698 [...] After the Xbox Live snafus two weeks ago, Micro-Soft has done it again! This time “less than 1%” of the Xbox 360 owners (roughly 6 million at last count) had problems getting the latest firmware update released a couple days ago. Apparently, the engineers forgot to incorporate cross-checks for the unlikely possibility that someone might have avoided applying all the previously released updates to their system before downloading this latest update. These people are now left with an expensive paperweight, and Microsoft deserves some credit here as it is trying as hard as possible to provide them with new consoles. A newer update to the update has also been released.  [...] [...] After the Xbox Live snafus two weeks ago, Micro-Soft has done it again! This time “less than 1%” of the Xbox 360 owners (roughly 6 million at last count) had problems getting the latest firmware update released a couple days ago. Apparently, the engineers forgot to incorporate cross-checks for the unlikely possibility that someone might have avoided applying all the previously released updates to their system before downloading this latest update. These people are now left with an expensive paperweight, and Microsoft deserves some credit here as it is trying as hard as possible to provide them with new consoles. A newer update to the update has also been released.  [...]

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