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Microsoft Talks Handhelds, Xbox Linux

Posted by simoniker on from the boxy-has-moxy dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Canada.com interview with Xbox head honcho Robbie Bach, which shoots him some wide-ranging and perceptive questions about Microsoft's console strategy. Interesting answers include whether Microsoft wants to get into the handheld console market ("It's like starting a new business...we will focus on making the current Xbox successful."), and their views of Linux for Xbox ("..the numbers are not really that big. It's not a commercial as much as it is an intellectual property issue and we always pursue those.")

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  1. Re:MS handheld consoles? by garcia · · Score: 0, Troll

    stop running Win9x and stop giving a stupid joke that died with WinNT based WinOSs.

  2. Going after intellectual property by McAddress · · Score: 0, Troll

    just like they went after the intellectual property belonging to Apple and Linux.

  3. Go with PS2 by borgheron · · Score: 1, Troll

    At least Sony supports Linux and supports, for the most part, the right of its customers to tinker.

    What else should we expect from MS except for Fear & Control and all of those things we hate, but when has it been any different?

    Thanks, GJC

    --
    Gregory Casamento
    ## Chief Maintainer for GNUstep
    1. Re:Go with PS2 by figleaf · · Score: 0, Troll

      Americans are the laughing stock of the world. They would rather support a foriegn company rather than a local one. No patriots in America.

  4. Re:Cheat?!? by mrmag00 · · Score: 0, Troll

    why would MS lose money? They can easily make money nowadays on that little box - it's cheap hardware today. And it IS easy to find an old p200 or somthing like that for a router. You must not be looking hard.