I'm sure it'll still be here when you're ready to buy one?

It doesn't apply to muggles.

Yep, my bad. It fades out after a few seconds of being on the home screen. I just hadn't noticed it before.

I'm sorry that MS failed to make a controller shaped to fit your ego.

Remember all the Xbox 360 titles that say "Do not shut off console while game is attempting to save data". Now you have a console that multitasks and downloads and installs updates in the background (without necessarily notifying you) and you want to start randomly pulling the plug on it?

You do realize there is an option in the settings to change it so it shuts down completely when you power it off, right?

So change the settings so that the system shuts all the way off or quit sleeping with your Xbox. Problem solved.

I'm wondering if they just did a stealth patch of the OS. When I got home from work tonight and turned on the Xbox One it did a full boot with a slight pause (I have it on standby mode, so it should have just resumed from sleep or whatever you call it).

And now I notice that my home screen has the time in the lower corner... I'm pretty sure that wasn't there before.

I got that Nyko(sp?) charging stand that handles two controllers and doesn't require plugging in. Works great so far. If it dies, it was cheap and have plenty of rechargeable AA's.

The hardware is designed for it, so it shouldn't be an issue (unless your hardware is faulty, or one of the cooling fans gives up the ghost). For me, the bigger headache is deciding if I want to have a fast start up, but more frequent app/game issues, or wait for a full boot, but generally have a less buggy experience. It seems like some of the early generation software (maybe the OS, maybe an app, maybe a game, probably some combination of all three) is leaking memory or in some way gumming up the work. The longer you have the system on the more likely you'll get a crash, freeze, slowdown, or other weirdness, and once you do it seems more likely these things will continue until you fully shut the system down and restart it.

For now, I'm letting it fast boot and doing a full reset if/when anything starts acting weird.

Looks like your app has crashed. I'm pretty sure this is going to be the failing of XB1 for a while. They built a multitasking system and I'll bet anything all of these new apps are introducing memory leaks. The fix is simple, usually, reboot the system.

The snag is that I think most people don't realize that when you turn it off you're not really turning it off, you're just putting it in sleep mode (if you can say XBox On and have it turn on, you didn't actually turn it off).

Solution, either hold down the power button for 15 seconds and let it do a full shut down, or go into the settings and change the power on/off mode to do a full shut down vs the fast boot option, and then shut it down and start it back up).

That seems to fix most of the intermittent issues. Of course the downside is you get to wait for the full boot sequence which is much slower.

MS will get it patched, but in the meantime welcome to the world of the early adopter...