Major Nelson lets us know that Xbox Live is back up, and running smooth. This after a minor 2 hour delay of coming back up. It’s also important to note that taking down the service this time was to perform back-end enhancements for the New Xbox Experience. Specifically, this was not the update for the New Xbox Experience. Please spare the Microsoft reps, and don’t send them messages asking them if it is.
We haven’t really noticed any changes to the service except for the return to the single-page friends list on the My Xbox part, which is what the community was asking for after the previous change to only 15 users per page. Thanks for listening to the community Microsoft!