GrooveMaster: Re: This is incorrect as Xbox's initial slam was there was no games to play on it. The games really came after the Xbox. Most of the games are made by others......not Microsoft.
I am not a gamer, but I have followed Microsoft fairly closely, having been an investor for many years. Microsoft saw Xbox as a way to penetrate and eventually dominate the very lucrative game software market. This is really pretty well-known. It is not my theory. Shoot - even Microsoft admitted it a couple of years ago when Xbox came out. It is also pretty well-known that the effort to date has been pretty much a failure. Microsoft does not make money on Xbox, and their games don't sell all that well. You cannot say that the plan did not exist simply because Microsoft failed to execute.
I'll stand by my point that Microsoft is more than a software company at this stage in the game.
Let me just reiterate my point about your failure to accept general statements. I made a statement that Microsoft is a software company. I stand behind that statement, even though it is true that they have made some unprofitable forays into hardware, support services, and other ventures.
In another post, I made every effort to try to show why talk of Microsoft and Xbox is completely irrelevent to NVEI. NVEI is claiming to be a communications chipset company, whose target customers would be telco equipment manufacturers. Microsoft is not a telco equipment manufacturer, nor is thereany indication at all that they have even the slightest passing interest in being a telco equipment manufacturer. Xbox, wheel mice and natural keyboards notwithstanding.
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