Word: microsoft
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Sony isn't alone in that market. Microsoft recently announced a new micropayment system for Xbox, letting gamers make small purchases through their consoles. "Gamers want what they want when they want it and how they want it," says Tokheim. For now, that means pizza, pronto. --By Jeremy Caplan
...last thing you would expect to hear Paul Otellini praising is an Apple product. Otellini, 54, is the incoming CEO at Intel, the chipmaker that along with Microsoft has ruled the PC world for much of the past 20 years and has pushed the Macintosh platform to the fringes of market share. Yet when Otellini outlines his company's new strategy, the first product
...Perhaps more wounding was the fact that longtime allies seemed to be abandoning Intel. Microsoft announced that it would turn to IBM for the chips for its next video-games console, the Xbox 2, though it was Intel x86 chips that powered the original Xbox. Kevin Rollins, the new CEO of Dell--the world's biggest manufacturer of Intel PCs--mused publicly about the possibility of switching to AMD chips. (Rollins has since decided to stick with Intel.) Craig Barrett, the current Intel CEO, who will step down in May, went into mea culpa mode. "This is not the Intel...
...INDICATORS Broken Trust The European Commission rejected Microsoft's proposals to curb the power of a monitor charged with policing its compliance with antitrust sanctions imposed one year ago. The firm has until April 11 to respond...
...Question Of Trust The European Commission threatened Microsoft with fines for not doing enough to comply with antitrust sanctions imposed on the firm a year ago requiring it to share technical data with rivals...