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Microsoft HomeStation - Son Of XBox Revealed

Posted by timothy on from the what-the-future-holds dept.

An unnamed reader contributes this link: "PC Formathave story about Microsoft's follow up to the XBox. Rumor is it's a home entertainment centre called HomeStation. It'll offer video and TV on demand, and act as an internet gateway for internet appliances. Profiling is mentioned. The story makes an interesting point about how the XBox's true purpose is to pave the way for Microsoft as a home entertainment brand."

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  1. Whoa, Slashdot's back up again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Please explain why anybody is going to buy services from VA Linux when they can't even keep their most visible site working.


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    Eric S. Raymond ("Surprised by de-listing")

  2. HomeStation? by Ayon+Rantz · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have it on good authority that the box will actually be called "My Games Console".

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  3. A Fun PR Move... by krmt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn it, I wish Microsoft had thought of this.

    You know the original demo for the N64, the one they incorporated in to Mario64, where you could play with Mario's face and distort it and tweak it? I think Microsoft should do the same demo for the XBox with Bill G's face and maybe Steve Ballmer's as well.

    Think of how much fun that would be to play with! Way cooler than the Mario demo. Plus, it'd be a funny PR move, showing they have a sense of humor.

    I also hope they don't keep the name as HomeStation. It sounds like something out of a military movie: "Echo troop to home station, do you copy?" Brrr! Call it something cozy and consumer-friendly, like... I don't know... Microsoft Bob.

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  4. This will probably also be modded down but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently you have yet to grasp the finer points of karma whoreing on /.

    Any post that starts with "this will probably be modded down but..." or the like are always modded up.

    Whether this is because moderators like to be unpredictable or there is some other reason is yet unknown to me. So the effect of the subject of this post is not quite known (if they just like to be unpredictable, they'll probably mod down, as modding up is predicted elsewhere in this post. But if the reason is something else, then they will probably mod up).

    Anonymous karma whore.