To try to get users to upgrade from Silver to Gold memberships, Microsoft is going to tease us with a free weekend of Gold membership, to remind us why we’d want to upgrade. So starting April 1st, a Verizon sponsored weekend of free Gold access will begin.
Hopefully, there will be other such weekends, as I have not really built up a friend base that have Xbox 360’s to play against to justify owning a Gold membership.
Source: 1up.com