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Re: Heads up HBO guys
Posted By: Loren Petrich <petrich@netcom.com>	Date: 7/1/00 3:48 p.m.
In Response To: Heads up HBO guys (Bagman) > Check this out > http://www.msxbox.com/features/swiss.shtml Got to love this > line "Despite Microsoft insisting that the Xbox will be > nothing more than a game machine hardly anybody believes the > official word." This would be in accord with speculations about what the Dreamcast and the Playstation 2 may eventually be used as -- Internet appliances. The X-box could be vaporware designed to keep Sega and Sony out of M$'s claimed territory; it is capable of being an Internet appliance also. > If the Xbox becomes an internet appliance we may have to live > with proprietary USB connectors which would suck but that's M$ > for ya! Which says a lot about M$'s "commitment" to open standards. M$ shows its greatest commitment to open standards when the standards have been created by others, such as AOL's Instant Messenger message protocol. My speculation about the proprietariness is that M$ will charge peripheral makers for the privilege of making X-box-compatible peripherals, thus getting an additional revenue source.

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Heads up HBO guys	Bagman	7/1/00 10:22 a.m.
Re: Heads up HBO guys	Loren Petrich	7/1/00 3:48 p.m.