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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Lawsuit blames Xbox for house fire
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| "We feel positive it came from the Xbox," said Doug Allison of
>| Corpus Christi, a lawyer who filed the suit against Microsoft and
>| two other defendants.
> `----
>
> http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA112506.01B.xboxsuit.30e0b7a.html
>
Just when you think things couldn't get any worse for the folk in
Redmond, their products allegedly start to burn down houses. I suppose
they Microsoft folk will be pleased nobody was killed. This time,
anyway.
> Does "360" refer to the temperature? Regardless, I have also found the
> following (published on the same day):
>
> So my cousin from Microsoft called
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Erhmm... My cousin just called who works for Microsoft and was on the
>| xbox 360 team. He said first generation xbox 360's are having a SERIOUS
>| over heating issue and they might be recalled sometime next week. The
>| recall is being considered because the overheating can cause a short,
>| resulting in a fire.
> `----
>
> http://chris.instantspot.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/11/24/So-my-cousin-from-Microsoft-called
>
>
> Related:
>
> Gamers Say Microsoft Understates Xbox Problems
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| An insider from Electronic Arts, Inc. is saying that the failure rate
>| of Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console is actually ten times higher than
>| what Microsoft spokespeople have admitted.
>|
>| Game Daily BIZ, a gaming industry publication, reported that the
>| anonymous source tallied that of the 300 consoles EA has received,
>| 30-50 percent of them have failed.
> `----
>
> http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/08/xbox_gamers02.html
>
>
> How Much is Too Much?
>
> ,----[ Summary ]
>| Microsoft says it will stick with Xbox. But with years of heavy losses
>| behind it, the pressure's on for the gaming division to make good
> `----
>
> http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/oct2006/id20061013_283856.htm?campaign_id=rss_topStories
> http://tinyurl.com/yxdr4j
>
>
> Microsoft stoic despite massive losses
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| If you were to judge by the PR rhetoric, you'd think the 360 was
>| an unstoppable commercial juggernaut. As usual though, PR lies.
> `----
>
> http://www.gamerscan.com/articles/06/10/09/microsofts.massive.losses/
>
> Vista may have similar problems:
>
> nVidia ForceWare Vista Driver Blunder - Thermal Management?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Today we'll tell you about the death of an nVidia GeForce 7900GS
>| graphics card and how we think it could have been avoided by better
>| and more thoroughly-tested Windows Vista ForceWare drivers. It seems
>| to be a major blunder by nVidia and we feel as if it is important enough
>| to alert our readers about the issue.
> `----
>
> http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/990/nvidia_forceware_vista_driver_blunder_thermal_management/index.html
>
>
> Computers in schools are an environmental time-bomb
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The solution, according to Sirius Corporation, is a move away from the
>| ECTA frameworks to leaner hardware and 'virtualised' network services.
>|
>| Traditional 'fat-client' workstations should be replaced by low-power
>| 'thin-client' terminals. With flat screens and server consolidation
>| power consumption could be reduced even further.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| Hardware requirements to run Windows Vista means these consumption
>| figures will rise even futher. Schools are using computers as room
>| heaters which then need to be cooled using expensive air conditioning
>| and Modern thin-client networks could reverse this trend and are
>| available from the Open Source community and vendors of proprietary
>| software today.
> `----
>
> http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=213
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