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"Microsoft, X-box, and their foreseeable failure"

Question: Why have Microsoft entered the console market?

Answer: Because they think they will be able to take it over like that, make a load of cash and be one step nearer to owning your brain.

I think MS should just stick to what it's good at. No, not PC OSs, as anyone who have used Linux will tell you, but small apps like IE, Outlook Express (not 2000) and Excel. Maybe Word. Everything else is just total bloat. Did you know, that laser printers cause a miniscule amount of Ozone (toxic). If you were to print out the Windows source code, you kill half the amazon rain forest?

Anyway, Microsoft are cheating. The X-box is using lastest third party hardware, and will be way expensive. And, have you seen the size of the thing! Basic unwritten console law states a console must have a max size of an A4 piece of paper.

Also, MS have no heart, because all they want to do is conquer the market. I believe Sony, Nintendo and Sega actually enjoy making millions of people happy.

Impressive as the specs are, I believe the X-box will fail. Let's face it.

a) It's a small PC

c) It's Microsoft

d) It runs off Windows, for god's sake!!!

opinions?

DarkPrincess wrote:
> I think ultimately, it won't do good because people like
> familiarity. I believe they'll choose Nintendo, Sony or Sega over
> Microsoft. Of course, Playstation broke the mold and was
> successful.

I'm just thinking back to the poor old Jaguar.

But... no one chose Sega (or at least not enough people to make it worth continuing to build DC's), even though it was THE most familiar... ???

I think ultimately, it won't do good because people like familiarity. I believe they'll choose Nintendo, Sony or Sega over Microsoft. Of course, Playstation broke the mold and was successful.

I'm just thinking back to the poor old Jaguar.

Ok i'll let you off ;-p Yup I'm off too now - gotta be up for the F.A Cup Final !!!! :-))

COME ON LIVERPOOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm off now as well.

Cheers for your help turbonutter!

Hmmm, I wouldn't reccommend win2k. yer RAM's fine, but processor... Also, most programs need separate versions for win2k.

Wait till you get your 800mhz. Run win2k on that, keep yer 400 on win9x

savatt:
"I have had a load of PC games crash on me, but my PC is poo" or something

Anyway, I'm off to bed now.

Thank you, and good night

turbonutter wrote:
> Your Honour wrote:
> I never mentioned system
> performance

Sorry, savatt wrote that

Did I !? :-\

128MB RAM, sorry.

AMD K6-2 400, 126MG RAM.

Am going to upgrade to at least a 800MHz Athlon though.

Will probably upgrade the 2 together, try and save some hassle.

It uses an insane amount of sys res. What's your PC stats?

Hmmmmm, looks like i wont be getting XP then......

I've got a version Win2000 that i'll install, i think i'm going to wait 'til my exams are out of the way first though...

If i'm happy with 2000 i'll probably stick to it to be honest.