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Microsoft’s Xbox Live online service has been causing gamers consternation since the end-of-year holidays: folks have intermittently been unable to log on, purchase games or other substance, buy or redeem Microsoft Points—even match-making transactions for signal of Duty 4

have been unreliable. Microsoft says it has been working on the problems, but improvements have been slow in coming—so much so that

rumors have begun circulating that Xbox Live has been subjected to some sort of denial-of-service attack.

Although Microsoft hasn’t reveled the cause of the problems, the basic sense among industry watchers is that the service has simply […]

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