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"Microsoft is offering one month free Xbox Live Gold membership to users affected by the recent cloud storage outage. The Xbox 360&amp;#039;s cloud-saving feature was offline over the weekend following a failure last week. Normal service has since been resumed, with Microsoft&amp;#039;s Major Nelson admitting that it took longer than expected to resolve the issue. &amp;quot;We want to thank all of our Xbox LIVE members impacted by the Cloud Saved Games service issue for your patience and understanding,&amp;quot; reads a statement by Nelson. &amp;quot;It took longer than we expected to get back to full performance as we needed to ensure the integrity of everyone&amp;#039;s game saves.  &amp;quot;Whether you couldn&amp;#039;t access your game saves for a couple of hours or a couple of days, we sincerely apologize for the delay and inconvenience.  &amp;quot;We will be automatically applying a one-month extension to the Xbox LIVE Gold memberships of everyone who was impacted. We can assure you we&amp;#039;ll also be doing a thorough post-mortem to help prevent this from happening again,&amp;quot; he added. Microsoft&amp;#039;s Xbox 360 was recently voted the &amp;#039;Best Gaming Platform&amp;#039; of the year by readers of Digital Spy. The console won 33.3% of the vote, edging ahead of Sony&amp;#039;s PlayStation 3, which came second with 28.9%. The vote of confidence comes after the Xbox 360 passed 70 million sales since its release in 2005.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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