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How Xbox Happened

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-a-mommy-console-and-a-daddy-console dept.

Next Generation has an exerpt from the book Smartbomb, discussing how it was that Microsoft came to enter the console market. From the article: "Two years before the Xbox's launch, Bill Gates and his top executives retreated to Puget Sound to discuss Microsoft's business model. A seismic shift was under way. The late nineties was a time of a burgeoning new consensus among media pundits and high-tech industry folks that the consumer world would turn its eye from desktop computers toward 'information appliances.'"

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  1. Cannot stop the mental imagery! by rts008 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "...Bill Gates and his top executives retreated to Puget Sound to discuss Microsoft's business model." I'm sorry, but every time I see this ( or similar) statement I cannot help thinking of Pinky and the Brain: "...and tomorrow we take over the WORLD!"

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  2. just maybe... by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 5, Funny

    maybe they got bored of enslaving the business world and decided to enslave children too. sounds right up their alley. :)

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