Microsoft quiet on Xbox 360 problems
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| Microsoft Corp. won't say what went wrong inside of its Xbox 360 video game
| consoles that could lead to $1 billion in repairs, but bloggers and their
| online readers seem to have their own answer: Heat stroke.
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| Microsoft, for its part, is giving few insights. Robbie Bach, president of
| the unprofitable entertainment and devices division responsible for the game
| console, said the company has made manufacturing and production changes that
| should reduce hardware lockups.
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| Microsoft declined to comment on whether overheating was causing any of the
| problems.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070706/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_xbox360_problems
They also lied about the failure rate. The company cannot be trusted. It's
deceptive by nature.
Related:
Rumor: Is Microsoft cheating their [Xbox 360] sales?
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| All in all, there are some sobering thoughts with very broad implications
| for any company if that were true. That being said, would you buy
| from Microsoft, or any other company for that matter, if they were
| cheating their sales?
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http://xbox360.qj.net/Rumor-Is-Microsoft-cheating-their-sales-/pg/49/aid/89595
Anecdotal: Microsoft low on Xbox 360 coffins
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| For the most part, we've given up on reporting every single time
| one of our colleagues in the gaming press has an Xbox 360 die on
| them. Frankly, we'd be writing a piece every couple weeks. A
| brilliant recent example was the Weekly Geek Show's Xbox 360,
| which we covered, died again in late May. Exactly one month
| and six days after being "repaired." But, like Peter Moore
| asked of all of us, we shouldn't focus on the failure rate
| of Xbox 360s, but on the service in repairing them. And so,
| we have the story of Officer Craig Ravitch of the New York
| Police Department.
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http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/06/anecdotal-microsoft-low-on-xbox-360-coffins/
http://tinyurl.com/28qx3b
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