Peter knew why he jumped ship....
Microsoft's game division suffers $1.89B shortfall
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| Among the grim financial figures were a few nuggets of interesting news.
| Apparently the EDD is beefing up its staff, since the company's report says
| that "headcount-related costs increased 15 percent [for the year], driven by
| a 9 percent increase in headcount and an increase in salaries and benefits
| for existing headcount, partially offset by a decrease in stock-based
| compensation expense."
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http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6175367.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews
Microsoft's Xbox 360 Problems Continue with New Failure Rate Information
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| A former EB Games employee has stated that out of all of the XBox 360
| consoles he has sold for the last year, about 33 percent of those units have
| been taken back to EB Games after the console
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/309005/microsofts_xbox_360_problems_continue.html
Microsoft faces second class action lawsuit over scratched discs
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| In the second such lawsuit to be filed this month, Microsoft is facing legal
| class action due to the Xbox 360's reported inclination to scratch game
| discs. According to InformationWeek, the suit alleges that "Microsoft
| improperly and/or negligently manufactured the Xbox 360 console in a manner
| that causes the expensive game discs ... to be scratched, rendering the games
| unusable."
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http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/19/microsoft-faces-second-class-action-lawsuit-over-scratched-discs/
They have already been caught in Europe where the flaws were studied /and/
confirmed.
Here's a funny lawsuit threat (new):
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| I am suing windows 98. I am using WordPad to create my document. The error
| message I get is; " OpenOffice.org cannot be started due to an error in
| accessing the OpenOffice.org configuration data."
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http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=148995
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