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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (54929)	1/6/2001 10:01:51 PM
From: TTOSBT	Respond to of 74651

Re: "Bill's always good for a laugh or two, anyway." One international magazine doesn't agree: http://www.economist.co.uk/business/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=464938 Microsoft’s cunning plan Jan 4th 2001 From The Economist print edition TTOSBT

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (54929)	1/6/2001 10:48:14 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Dan- I think the XBox is more than a game machine but the start of a class of consumer entertainment machines. With broadband access and complete control of the internals you can push a lot of more stuff down the line than a cable company can to their much dumber box. Games but also videos and MP3's. I can see month by month rental in addition to sending down a lot of free time limited stuff to try out. I doubt anyone will be able to find a way to unlock the disk so you'll only get something by paying Bill's price. It's sort of a direct connection to the consumer's credit card. Harvey