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XBox Live Network

Posted by michael on from the passports-for-everyone dept.

The New York Times covers Microsoft's planned XBox Live network, a subscription-based online service for the XBox. Microsoft's "we control everything" approach will probably impact the number of games available, but the article notes that the service will include voice-over-ip, which might be a selling point.

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  1. Security quote by antic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Robert J. Bach, a Microsoft senior vice president in charge of its games division: "When you're at Disneyland, there's no trash, no violence and you never see security. That's what we have in mind."

    Yep, definitely a Microsoft product...

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    'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'