Thanks, eldoen. I've chatted with Dean Lester a few times now. As the head man for Microsoft's Windows Gaming Group, he's talked with us several times in the past, outlining his plans for the next versions of Windows and DirectX. So when we heard that we'd be talking to him about Microsoft's next big announcement, we weren't too terribly surprised. After all, the Game Developer's Conference is a great forum for Dean to evangelize his games on Windows message. But when J Allard was also mentioned to us, we knew something was up. As head of the Xbox side of Microsoft Game Studios, he's a big name in the console community but doesn't have much of a presence on the PC.
When we were given the chance to interview the two men about the upcoming (and highly secretive) keynote address at this year's GDC, we suspected something was up. After chatting with them both for forty minutes, we knew they had big news.
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