| From: | Petr Krenzelok |
| Date: | 18 Sep 2000 at 10:12:14 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: OT: Console Market (was: Sega) |
Guvenc Kaplan wrote:
> I saw the specs of X-Box and laughed for more than an hour. I really wonder
> when MS will come up with other kind of hardware then a PC. Still Intel CPU,
> still Windows 2000 (for a game, do you believe it, you have to boot Windows
> 2000). Why should we need to boot an OS to play a game? A game should be
> entertain us, not suffer us. I insert my sensible soccer floppy into my
> Amiga and I start playing in less time than a Windows boot. So easy. Does
> Amiga ask me for Amiga Workbench? No.
>
> They are so blind that they will fail again. When too clever people work in
> a company, that company fails.
Hmm, today our czech comp site zive.cz brought article about new MS licencing
policy. They seem to be just stupid. Now you receive CD with OS and small
brochure with your ID printed on top of it when buying from OEM.
New policy is introducing another aproach. There will be no CD with Windows,
nor there will be the brochure. Your ID will be DEPENDANT upon your hw
components, so you will not be able to install it on another hw. I don't believe
it - noone could be so stupid .... What's more, the article says it will be up
to OEMs to prepare recovery CDs for cases something goes wrong. Once you change
your hw setup - you will have to ask for new ID ...
Now if it's true, I hope their "popularity" will lower even more :-)))
-pekr-
>
>
> Guvenc Kaplan
> http://www.amigart.com
> Our choices reflect our lifestyle.
>
> > The X-Box is so far away that it isn't worth comparing it to
> > systems that are out now. Maybe the Dolphin, but both Sega and
> > Sony have said that they will be at least one more generation
> > ahead when the X-Box launches.
>
> Um, am I the only one who heard Bill say the X-Box would launch
> next spring? That's only about 6 months away...
>
> > The other thing that
> > remains to be seen is if M$ can pull it off. All the specs I've
> > read about the X-Box so far make me think they don't understand the
> > console market at all.
>
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