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MS goes for control, Disneyesque experience for Xbox Live | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Microsoft habitually announces billion dollar bets that aren't really, but Xbox Live really is one. That's not to say the stated billions are correct of course, but if this one flops it'll still cost Redmond a pretty penny. In the event of failure Microsoft would be left clutching four datacentres, a sophisticated broadband voice, data and messaging network waiting for clients that aren't coming, and - bizarrely - some kind of online Disneyesque experience. And it's risky because - as was not the case in the pre-XP hype period - Microsoft is trying to carve its way into and dominate an entirely new market that it doesn't already own. As The Register has been known to observe in the past, Microsoft is actually not very good at this kind of stuff, so don't get your hopes up (or do, depending on your inclinations). | ||
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| #1 By 1896 (66.20.203.205) at 5/21/2002 11:13:48 PM |
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"Microsoft is trying to carve its way into and dominate'.
Are these people at The Register suffering some kind of "Napoleon complex"? I mean they are obsessed by this idea of domination, in their world either MS dominates a market therefore is evil or, if it doesn't achieve a total domination MS miserably failed. Get a life guys, companies are out there to make money not to play Risiko. |
| #2 By 20 (24.243.51.87) at 5/22/2002 10:09:51 AM |
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Why are critics of Microsoft so short sighted.
Does the Register honestly believe that MS has set up all this infrastructure for JUST the XBox Live system? Do they believe that if Live fails, that MS will be standing there holding the bag, not knowing what to do? I can't believe they don't think that MS has a million plans for this network or for Live. MS has been talking about a home media box and everything that goes along with it for years, yet everyone is so short sighted to see it. They talk about how XBox is a lost cause in terms of money. They only see the XBox. It's the same thing with Live. There is huge potential here to make a product that people adopt as readily as the television. The home media box could be as integral to our home as the refrigerator. |
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