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To: combjelly who wrote (152244)	12/12/2001 1:14:24 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Combjelly, <If these things weren't settled by that time, then Microsoft goes into these negotiations in a different way than any company I ever worked for. You mean to tell me that they made a big presentation when they had no idea what the presentation was about?> Nice strawman. I repeat: Microsoft was in the early planning stages for X-Box. Many details were subject to change, including the hardware specs. You are equating words seen on preliminary Powerpoint presentations to words set in stone. It does not work that way. Tenchusatsu

To: combjelly who wrote (152244)	12/12/2001 1:34:05 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Combjelly, Re: "You mean to tell me that they made a big presentation when they had no idea what the presentation was about?" Since when do PowerPoint presentations represent the final state of commitments? You have no idea what the timeline was between whenever someone created that presentation and whenever Intel won the contract. It's very probable that the marketing people that did the presentation had little contact with the executives handling the contract, and thus created a small discrepancy in the finer details. Without this information, you have nothing to substantiate your claims. wbmw