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Xbox Price Slashed In UK
News Microsoft has just made the announcement that's been the subject of much speculation for a couple of weeks or so -- it's to slash £100 off the price of the Xbox, effective as of April 26th. We are making a clear statement today -- we mean business...
[April 18, 2002, 9:02]
Xbox Faces The Music With New Software
News Microsoft announced the first non-game application for its Xbox video game console on Monday and unveiled a handful of high-profile games intended to boost the system's cachet among hardcore players. The announcement of the Xbox Music Mixer was the...
[May 13, 2003, 7:55]
Xbox Will Use Seagate Hard Drives
News Seagate has been chosen to supply hard drives for Xbox, Microsoft's forthcoming video games console. Xbox, which is timetabled for an Autumn 2001 release, will be Microsoft's first games console. We'd only be guessing at this stage, as the...
[November 8, 2000, 15:31]
MS Credits XP, Xbox For 'record' Sales
News Xbox is the first step in Microsoft's long-term strategic vision for the future of home entertainment, and it too met with great success," Connors said. Analysts estimated that consumers bought on average three additional items, typically games...
[January 18, 2002, 8:49]
Xbox Online Pricing Set
News Microsoft will spend $2bn (£1.4bn) over the next five years in its effort to make Xbox the leading video game console, a company executive said Monday. John O'Rourke, marketing director for Microsoft's games division, said the company will spend...
[May 21, 2002, 9:46]
Xbox Mod Chip Discontinued
News One of the companies making Xbox "mod chips" -- add-on components that modify the game machine so it can run illegally copied discs and homemade software -- has gone out of business, possibly because of legal pressure from Microsoft.
[June 27, 2002, 8:36]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback Once microsoft have sold the Xbox IT IS NO LONGER MICROSOFT HARDWARE. Assuming that he is serious, Mr anonymous bahaha misses the point. To labour the bicycle analogy, if what Mr anonymous bahaha says held true, microsoft could break into my house...
[September 17, 2003, 16:01]
Xbox Chips Augment Nvidia Results
News Nvidia, the leading maker of graphics chips for PCs and other devices, reported modest sales gains and a sharp jump in quarterly profits Thursday, which it attributed to its deal to supply chips for Microsoft's Xbox game machine.
[August 8, 2003, 15:05]
Xbox Transformed Into Linux PC
News A group of programmers have managed to turn Microsoft's Xbox gaming console -- which is built on standard components found in a PC -- back into a desktop computer. That is the effect, at least, of a breakthrough by the Xbox Linux Project, which on...
[September 3, 2002, 13:38]
Xbox Trouble Tests Microsoft Support
Talkback I purchased an xbox about a year and a half ago and over this time game play has resulted in the discs developing scratches and now went even newly purchased games are played the play freezes and a display comes on the screen telling me the disc...
[January 2, 2004, 19:34]
Xbox UK Launch Prompts Mass Sickies
News Over 90 percent of Xbox buyers are planning to take the day off work tomorrow, according to a survey conducted by Amazon.com. Microsoft's Xbox gaming console is due to go on sale at midnight tonight in stores across the UK, and those who pre...
[March 13, 2002, 15:42]
Xbox Price To Drop Tonight
News Microsoft is to announce a price cut on Monday night for its Xbox games console, though analysts say the cut will not be enough to take market share from Sony's PlayStation 2. Microsoft Australia confirmed on Sunday the timing of an announcement...
[March 29, 2004, 11:55]
Xbox Tools Are Delayed
News Key developer tools for Microsoft's Xbox games console have been delayed, adding to concerns about the platform's launch plans. The beta version of Xbox's software development kit -- used to tailor games for a specific hardware platform -- was...
[April 4, 2001, 10:06]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback When you purchase your xbox, xbox 360, or pc one of the selling points though often overlooked is that it automatically downloads/updates. Do i have do i have this program or do i have that one, do i.Now with that said (because m$ will reply "you...
[June 15, 2006, 20:27]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback Linux on the XBOX. The closest microsoft will EVER come to supporting anything open source.and before someone flames me i mean they support the hardware) The fact that microsoft has released this patch disgusts me but really doesnt surprise me.
[July 31, 2004, 10:11]
Report: Xbox Will Be A Loser For Microsoft
News Microsoft could lose as much as $2bn(£1.36bn) on its Xbox console, potentially selling the game console at a loss for three years or more, before breaking even in fiscal 2005, according to a Merrill Lynch report released Tuesday.
[March 7, 2001, 9:00]
Xbox Hackers Attempt To Blackmail Microsoft
Talkback Anyway, Microsoft also SUCKS A LOT because the XBOX could be more than a single "console". And what people don't realize is that XBOX is a FULL COMPATIBLE PC with an extremelly advanced video processor and it cost about 10% of the normal PC price.
[May 16, 2004, 17:15]
Xbox Set For Friendlier European Arrival
News Microsoft is expected to begin a comparatively pleasant European holiday this week, after a bruising arrival for the Xbox in Japan last month. See also: Gamespot's Q&A with J Allard and Michel Cassius on the European Xbox launch.
[March 14, 2002, 9:08]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback I don't have an xbox, but if I did, I'd be pissed off to find out that MS were deleting files I'd put on the computer that I'd bought without asking me. The question is, whose freakin hardware is it?
[October 11, 2003, 20:18]
Xbox Linux Group Seeks Microsoft Seal Of Approval
News The group of programmers working to run Linux on Microsoft's Xbox video game console is seeking the software giant's seal of approval. In an open letter sent to Microsoft, the organisers of the Xbox Linux Project requested that the software giant...
[February 20, 2003, 11:30]
