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XBOX OUTAGE CAUSED BY EXTERNAL LICENSING SERVICE

Xbox experienced a major outage this week that prevented users from playing games, including disc-based titles. An Xbox executive attributed the failure to a third-party licensing service operating outside Xbox's systems.

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Xbox is down, and users are even having trouble playing disc-based games.

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An Xbox executive said yesterday's outage was due to "a licensing service that sits outside of Xbox."

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