Working? It’s not working for me. I can’t sign in and see friends lists or do any of that; all the sign in pages tell me–apologetically–that they can’t be found.
You can add points through the website now, or at least I don’t recall seeing that there before. You can now also tweak the parental controls and select more gamer pics (though still not the full set of choices) when editing your profile through xbox.com
true. The mistake was telling everyone that ‘this isnt the fall update, it’s maintanence for 24 hours, but we are adding some stuff you’ll think is very cool’ or some such nonsense.
Then they take about 48 hours, and made their points buying available, and some parental controls. I know thats what most gamers think is ‘COOL!’
It may also have been a chance for them to do some back-end upgrades to allow them to do some testing of the new features on the live services, but before they update everyone’s client to expose those features.
You can now add microsoft points from the website - I’m not sure but I’ve been told that wasn’t there before. I also heard something about parental controls on the website, but I don’t see anything obvious.
The official Microsoft games PR blog has probably the real explanation:
“The servers and software were upgraded to prepare for updates that will go live later this month. You shouldn’t see any noticeable changes right now. We’re preparing details about he updates going into Xbox.com and Xbox Live, that we’ll share with you next week.”
I hope what they mean is that the Fall dashboard update is coming later this month, and not that there will just be some new website features later this month. Anyway, sounds like we’ll hear specifics next week.