Xbox Live had global problems on November 14-17, 2008. Here in Finland I was disconnected from Xbox Live in about few minutes each time I had signed in to Xbox Live. I couldn't see the pictures in gamer profiles correctly and that includes the gamer picture, game icon and achievement pics. I could only read the first few words of any private message. Xbox Live has had problems before, so nothing new here, but usually Xbox Live has been totally down when it has been having problems. Maybe some of us will get an Xbox Live Arcade game for free as has happened at least once before because of Live problems. Now "Xbox.com is currently down for maintenance" if you try to visit the main xbox.com page. That's probably because of the "New Xbox Experience" where you should be able to use an avatar with your Xbox 360 console and there should be some other new stuff also.