GrooveMaster: As is so often the case lately, you seem hell-bent on proving me wrong on technicalities while completely ignoring my point. I assume that this is your attempt to deflect the focus of the conversation from the extreme unlikelihood of Microsoft's interest in Embarq toward trying to discredit me.
If only you held NVEI to the same standard of credibility. But I digress...
My original point in my response to LORTAP MACS was that it is extraordinarily unlikely that Microsoft would sink any money into NVEI for various reasons including the fact that they are *primarily* a software company. However, since you seem to refuse to think in general terms, that point seems to have been lost on you. I still maintain that they are not a communications chipset company, nor do they intend to be.
As they have invested billions of dollars into a hardware piece the Xbox I would have to conclude they are more than a *software* company.
Thought not particularly relevant, it does not take a great deal of sophisticated thought to understand the reasoning behind the Xbox for Microsoft. If you have followed them at all - read the press reseases, listened to conference calls - you would know that the Xbox hardware was intended to substantially increase Microsoft's penetration into the game software market. As I said in a previous post, the purpose of Xbox was not to make money on hardware, but to increase software sales.
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