Xbox Live downtime

Q: Why? Why? Why?
A: Because we're giving the hamsters the day off. Seriously we just need to do some regular maintenance on the servers. We're not doing it to make you mad … really.

Q: Is this a Dashboard update?
A: Nope.

Q: So what's going to happen exactly? What's it going to look like for me?
A: You will see a "We're down for maintenance" page on Xbox.com and a similar message on your Xbox console.

Q: Fourteen hours? But that's a long time.
A: Yes it is. It's also 50,400 seconds. Count fifty thousand "Mississippis" and we'll be back up and running.