Major XBox outage. It's not just you!

Most of yesterday afternoon and evening all of the gaming services were off line. The outage map showed nearly all major cities were affected by the outage. I was unable to even launch the sim but instead had a notification pop up saying I needed to connect to the internet. All Xbox services were out for several hours.
 
You know what's annoying? If you haven't run the sim before, you don't even get the popup about connecting to online services. The MSFS icon just does nothing.

And guess who had just reinstalled Windows fresh and thought MSFS must have been picking up something untowards from cloud storage or something and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't run?

Grrrrrrr. Wasted a bit of time troubleshooting because they didn't account for that particular error state.
 
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