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I think that Microsoft is aware of this and this is why they are pushing. When that happens, Linux and/or FreeBSD will be there and quite happily start gobbling up the entire OS market. Sooner or later, the hardware market will saturate and the economy of scale which has made Windows affordable will turn against Microsoft and make Windows expensive. We will be self congratulatory and derisive. Our niche will hack something "better" from it. So this is a bit cynical, but I think it is realistic. No matter what, MS will be "stupid" in our book. Then we will all sit around and pat each other on the back and marvel at how great it is to be ruining Microsoft's profitability. Once the nut is cracked, everyone will flock to buy up Xboxes/Homestations and use them for non-MS-endorsed purposes. Moreover, this treads in a technology domain that the community knows all too well. This community will co-opt *anything* and use it for our own purposes. We will remake it in our own image and feel all the more smug about it. Then everyone will run out and buy one and stick an extra 80-GB hard drive or two into it and hack video4linux into it. How many Xboxes will have their warantees invalidated as new users buy them for $199 and hack them up? I suspect to see an article about one week after the initial rollout where somebody has hacked this, and reverse-engineered that and has Linux/FreeBSD/BEOS/Aethos running on the thing. "Non-expandable"? Ha! Maybe until we get it home.
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Anybody think Microsoft is going to be any more open source on hardware than they are on software, especially since they can change the subscribed to service a few years later and make all these things obsolete so that you have to go out and buy another one, or maybe even send a little code down the wire to cripple or disable your old unit? And of course if you have to get all the content for this thing from Microsoft, they can raise rates at will in a way that cable companies can only dream about.Īnother thing the article says, "The device's launch is heavily dependant on broadband becoming widely available.", makes me think that the slow roll out of fat pipes may have an unexpected benefit, by keeping this thing from achieving critical mass.
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(Yes, I realize you meant a different kind of expansion.)Īt least if I buy a VCR or TV I can buy the service manual or the Sams, even if the unit isn't designed to be modified by the customer. Yes, it is, but according to the article, ".the device is likely to be a non-upgradeable sealed unit.".