...Microsoft is utterly uninterested in cannibalizing Xbox and have been absolutely incompetent at PC gaming. See all their previous botched "we mean it this time" Games For Windows initiatives. Maybe they should name it "Plays For Sure" this time around.

It's not just hoax news--it's laziness and lack of resources (or just plain laziness) at the local news level where they repeat canned PR news-lite. Team Coco at Conan O'Brien Show noticed it with this pre-Christmas headline repeated everywhere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8L7bdwVaA

BOSE: Buy Other Speaker Equipment

Fixed it for you.

...I can't get the manufacturer to acknowledge or confirm that there is problem when copying between hard drives in the same enclosure. Windows hangs and eventually the Event Logs show "device is not connected" or some sort of issue. Copying between drive and the motherboard's SATA drives works fine but it always hangs/times-out/becomes inaccessible after a random amount of transfer. It's surprisingly well put-together without looking tacky and well-priced but this copying issue between drives inside it is a pain. Transfer between drives inside it seem to work without a hitch using slower USB. http://mediasonicinc.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=150 It syncs with your PC's power so if the PC goes off, the box goes to sleep and wakes up when the PC power is restored.