“The Microsoft Xbox 360 unveiled Thursday night on MTV isn’t just a video game console. It’s version 2.0 in Bill Gates’ plan to take over your living room,” Dean Takahashi reports for Mercury News. “Beyond being a killer machine for gamers, the Xbox 360 makes good on the company’s original plan in 2001 to unleash a ‘Trojan horse.’ That is, consumers buy the console as a game box, but they use it for all sorts of digital entertainment. The Xbox 360 goes on sale in the fall but Microsoft has not revealed its price. ‘We are No. 1 out of the box with this next generation,’ said Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer in an interview with the Mercury News on Thursday. ‘That’s always an advantage. We’ve got a super product. We’ve got super momentum.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Redmond’s Tweedle Dee* and Tweedle Dum* both need a “superectomy.” And they can take over our living rooms on the first business day after never.
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* Well, they’re living in a happy harmony
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
They’re one day older and a dollar short
They got a parade permit and a police escort
They’re lying low and they’re making hay
They seem determined to go all the way
They run a brick and tile company
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee…
Tweedle Dee is a low-down sorry old man.
Tweedle Dum, he’ll stab you where you stand. – Bob Dylan