How IBM Out-foxed Intel With The Xbox 360 327
xcaverx writes "Learning from failure is a hallmark of the technology business. Nick Baker, a 37-year-old system architect at Microsoft, knows that well. A British transplant at the software giant's Silicon Valley campus, he went from failed project to failed project in his career. He worked on such dogs as Apple Computer's defunct video card business, 3DO's failed game consoles, a chip startup that screwed up a deal with Nintendo, the never successful WebTV and Microsoft's canceled Ultimate TV satellite TV recorder.
But Baker finally has a hot seller with the Xbox 360, Microsoft's video game console launched worldwide last holiday season."
well... (Score:5, Funny)
destiny (Score:5, Funny)
So is Xbox now doomed? (Score:3, Funny)
Microsoft (Score:4, Funny)
Aim High! (Score:5, Funny)
My hat, sir, is off to you!
Re:Outfoxed? (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks
(I am single handedly trying to save
Oops. (Score:5, Funny)
They couldn't be late. They had to make hardware that could become much cheaper over time and had to pack as much performance into a game console as they could without overheating the box.
"Unfortunately, Larry Yang did not explicitly forbid overheating the power supply"
Re:Jumping the gun... (Score:2, Funny)
considering the overheating problems the 360 can have it may have been a subtle dig.
Nick Baker (Score:2, Funny)
Govt work anyone? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ahh, the litany of failure (Score:3, Funny)