We are currently in the middle of an unusually long scheduled outage for Zune Marketplace.

Our little tech world is now rife with rumors about what’s going on: Is Zune Marketplace coming to Xbox Live? Is this just a re-organizing of the (somewhat shared) Xbox and Zune servers? Is Microsoft rolling out a few more Zune games? Or is it, as Ed Oswald posits, the first step in a video-related enhancement?

My theory, definitely the most boring, is that it’s just a server upgrade and database re-organization, to rid the playcount lag we’ve been seeing since the September 16th release of Version 3.0.

Personally, I wanna hear what Stefan has to say – his track record on predictions certainly beats mine.

I’ve asked the Zune team about it, and they’ve been mum. ‘Til I know more, I’m keeping my expectations low.

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