[...] so finally one of the observers at the meeting just raises his hand and says, 'What about Sony?' and he says, 'Sony is slowly invading the living room with a processor here software there, they could be a threat to Microsoft.' So Bill and Steve stop and look at each other and go, 'Yeah...what about Sony?' And so Bill turns and says, 'I'm going to give you guys everything you want' and Ballmer repeats the same thing. https://www.cinemablend.com/games/1529770/how-bill-gates-reacted-to-th... [cinemablend.com]
“At first we called it the Windows Entertainment Platform, or WEP, and then we came up with a codename for it,” said Bachus. “We called it Project Midway. That was because, candidly, the Battle of Midway was the turning point in the battle with the Japanese [in World War II], where, through deception, we were able to fool the Japanese into thinking something was actually another. But we had to have a cover story for it, so we said it was ‘midway’ between a PC and a console.
もうXBOXいらなくない? (スコア:0)
リビングに進出とか寝言で始まったXBOXだけど、スマホ普及で生活の中心からTVが脱落した今となっては何のためにやってるのやらわからない。
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ソニーがPlayStation事業を畳むまではやるでしょう。
[...] so finally one of the observers at the meeting just raises his hand and says, 'What about Sony?' and he says, 'Sony is slowly invading the living room with a processor here software there, they could be a threat to Microsoft.' So Bill and Steve stop and look at each other and go, 'Yeah...what about Sony?' And so Bill turns and says, 'I'm going to give you guys everything you want' and Ballmer repeats the same thing.
https://www.cinemablend.com/games/1529770/how-bill-gates-reacted-to-th... [cinemablend.com]
“At first we called it the Windows Entertainment Platform, or WEP, and then we came up with a codename for it,” said Bachus. “We called it Project Midway. That was because, candidly, the Battle of Midway was the turning point in the battle with the Japanese [in World War II], where, through deception, we were able to fool the Japanese into thinking something was actually another. But we had to have a cover story for it, so we said it was ‘midway’ between a PC and a console.
“But we started referring to the hardware internally as the DirectX team’s box, or the DirectX box.
https://www.vg247.com/2011/08/04/the-xbox-story-part-3-going-pub [vg247.com]
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そんな10年近く前の、Linuxを公然と敵視していた、CEOすら今とは違う時代の文書を引っ張り出されてもなあ。
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発売が2001年なので20年前ほどですが、特に理念が変わったという話もありませんし、今でもGitHubを買収したりWSLでGNU/Linux利用者をなくそうとしたり、Microsoftは何も変わってないですよ。
むしろ「何のためにやってるのやらわからない」と言いながら、説明されると「今とは違う時代の文書を引っ張り出されてもなあ」と頑なに「わからない」状態を保とうとする理由を聞きたいですね。わからないことが目的?
Re:もうXBOXいらなくない? (スコア:0)
MSの中の人でもmac使ってる人が半数くらいになってる現状でもそれ言います??
LinuxではなくUnixの系譜ではありますけど。