Oh, the Irony

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If you own an Xbox 360, you’re most likely a subscriber to their Xbox Live online feature. Well, I do own an Xbox 360 and guess what… I play games online. Yeah yeah yeah… point and laugh all you want.

When signing up for Xbox Live, you’re also offered to sign up for their email list, which I opted in to without hesitation.

So I have been receiving messages here and there for the past six months from Xbox. Their emails are designed modestly; its content is concise and personalized with my gamer tag. Last week, they sent out two emails. One focusing on systems updates, the other focusing what I’ve been missing since I played last. I skimmed over both relatively quick, but one thing was glaring at me. Both emails had the same header:

Please add Xbox@email.xbox.com to your address book to ensure delivery.
Read this issue online if you can't see the images or are using Outlook 2007.

Does anyone see the irony here?

Xbox 360 -- a product developed and manufactured by Microsoft -- sends out emails to their users and they say in plain English, “Hey nerds, this simply won’t work using our new email software, because well… that would just make too much sense”.

You would think that those responsible for Xbox 360's emails would at least design them so they'd show up for those using Outlook 2007.

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