Author: Ian
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Happy 10th Anniversary: Xbox Insider Program
Hi there, Xbox Insiders! It’s official! On this day, ten years ago, we announced the launch of the “Xbox Preview Program”. We would later re-brand to the “Xbox Insider Program”, which we have all come to know and love. Our larger, more in-depth retrospective is still to come later this month, but we just wanted…
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Get To Know Our Team: Tyler – Technical Program Manager (Commerce & Subscriptions)
Get To Know Our Team Tyler Technical Program Manager (Commerce & Subscriptions) February 16, 2024 Hi, everyone! Wynn here again. Welcome back to another Xbox Insider Team interview. Today we’re sitting down with Tyler—a Technical Program Manager who focuses on the commerce and subscriptions side of the business. How’re we doing today, Tyler? Feeling great,…
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Get To Know Our Team: Dean – Technical Program Manager
Get To Know Our Team Dean Technical Program Manager February 14, 2024 Hi, everyone! Wynn here. We’re back with another Xbox Insider Team interview. Today we’ll be chatting with Dean—a Technical Program Manager, Xbox Mastercard maestro, and another all-around cat person. How’s it going, Dean? I’m doing well! Happy to be here. Glad we could…
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Get To Know Our Team: Evie – Game Release Support Manager
Get To Know Our Team Evie Game Release Support Manager February 13, 2024 Hi, everyone! Wynn, here. Back with another Xbox Insider Team interview. Today we’re chatting with Evie—a Game Release Support Manager who helps Xbox launch and support their first-party titles. How’s it going, Evie? It’s going really well, Wynn! Very excited to be…
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Xbox Insider Program 10th Anniversary Hub
Welcome to the Xbox Insider Program 10th Anniversary 10th Anniversary Hub Page. Below you’ll find all the great content we’re putting out over the course of February and March to celebrate the first ten incredible years of the program. We have interviews, historical retellings, and so much more! Come back throughout the next several weeks…
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Get To Know Our Team: Tim – Operations Manager (Game/App Flighting)
Get To Know Our Team Tim Operations Manager (Game/App Flighting) February 7, 2024 Hi, everyone! Wynn here. Back again with another Xbox Insider Team interview. Today we’re sitting down with Tim—an Operations Manager, man of few words, and… wait, are you a cat? You said we could choose whatever we want for our pictures! So,…
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Community Update February 2024 – 10th Anniversary Celebrations
Overview This month’s Community Update will be short and sweet like those little candy hearts you got in elementary school. (Yes, we can hold hands. Thank you for asking.) We have TON of content still to come this month, but we wanted to highlight a few things here for everyone’s benefit. As History Would Have…
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Get To Know Our Team: Joshua – Program Manager (OS Flighting)
You know, it’s kinda interesting. I’ve basically worked my entire adult life with Xbox, except for a few brief places early on (classics like delivering pizza). I was hired as T1 Support in July 2011 out of an old call center in Beaverton, Oregon. I spent around five years in the support channels moving my…
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Community Update January 2024 – First Month Accounts
Passages I hope this Community Update finds you as well as all those emails, meeting invites, and “let’s start the year strong” messages you marked all as read have in your Inbox. We’re only a week into 2024 and so much has happened already. We saw a real-life “Getting Over It” cosplay at a New…
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Community Update December 2023 – Virtually Optimized Month
Winter Is Coming Soon The chill of winter’s grasp is fast approaching those of us north of Earth’s hula hoop, and it’s times like these I look back fondly on my sojourn at our Fargo Campus. The days are short, the snow is freshly powdered, and it hasn’t yet gotten so cold that your eyelashes…