A widespread Xbox Live outage lasting several hours has now been resolved. The issue prevented players from signing in to their accounts and downloading or playing online games. Xbox Support said at. 23.34, eastern time in the US: "Users must be able to log in again, dock and end the purchase."

Xbox has previously confirmed that from 1 p.m. 18:57 at. 18:57 Eastern time there is a "head" Xbox Live flow interruption on its status page, which warns that they may encounter the problem of logging in to their user configuration files or disconnecting connections. Xbox said at. 8.20 pm in the US 8:20 pm in the evening, which breaks the Xbox store and subscription. National news said: "You may not be able to buy games now." Players who can sign in to their accounts on the console are experiencing online games failing to connect and showing their Xbox login error, while others are reporting issues with features like remote play.

Microsoft is also dealing with several other seemingly unrelated disconnection issues. The company reported issues with “multiple Azure services in the Central US region” as of about 5:56PM ET on Thursday. Thousands of Windows machines are also experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue as of Friday morning, which has taken some banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline globally.