Messin’ with Microsoft
2009 August 8
The Red Ring of Death
My XBox suffered the Red Ring of Death last week and is now a brick. Microsoft fixes the RRoD for free by sending the customer a pre-paid UPS label to ship in the defective unit for a replacement. Being somewhat disappointing with the less than two year lifespan of my 360 (my SNES from 1991 still works), I decided to send Microsoft a subtle “eff you” for rushing their product to market without first QA-ing it back to the stone-age:
