Allard 'Gets Real' With IGN

schnikies79 writes "In an interview with IGN, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President Chief Architect J. Allard said he wants to work with competitors on the XBox 360. From the interview: 'I'm pro consumer on this one to the end,' says Allard. 'Anybody in my company who thought this was a bad idea to plug in Sony or Apple devices into this thing, I ended that conversation pretty quickly. This is the right thing to do for consumers. Once they invest $500 in their digital media library, you can't ask them to go buy a 360 music player and a 360 digital camera, and a 360...NO! They got their stuff. They're going to want to plug it in. We're going to be open here, guys. And if anything, I wish we could be more cooperative with the other companies that are doing those things. And if Sony or Apple were to call me up and say, "Hey, we want to some special things with the 360," I'm on it. I think it would not be in anybody's interest to say, we're not going to work with 360. It's good for them, it's good for us, and it's good for consumers.'"

Comments

Microsoft Pro Consumer!??!?!

[OneByteOff]

*Runs out to buy gas, matches and bundles of wood*...

Fuck it, if hells freezing over I'm gonna be prepared

Re:With an Attitude Like That...

[timmarhy]

MS deserve all the bashing they get, they have earnt it through years of back stabbing everyone.

personally i think the quote worthy of note is "we are pro consumer on this one". what so he isn't pro consumer on every fucking other thing they do???