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To: Black-Scholes who wrote (46518)	10/26/1999 10:19:00 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Microsoft may play in video game market news.cnet.com By Reuters Special to CNET News.com October 26, 1999, 4:20 a.m. PT NEW YORK--Microsoft is considering pouring billions of dollars over four years into developing and promoting a home video game console, in a move to control digital entertainment, according to reports. The console is code-named X-box [creative name from those folks in Redmond], a person briefed on Microsoft's plans told the Wall Street Journal, and would represent an attempt to head off Sony in the home video game market. The Microsoft game system is expected to go on sale in the fall of 2000, unnamed industry executives told the Journal. Sony's Playstation 2 is expected to be launched in March in Japan and in the United States in fall 2000. It's not clear when Microsoft could announce its system, the Journal said. The new Sony machine will be able to run high-quality three-dimensional animation, play digital video disks, connect to the Internet, and store data in hard disk drives, the Journal said. It could potentially represent competition for home personal computers that use Microsoft software, the paper said.