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How four renegades persuaded Microsoft to make a game machine

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Microsoft engineers Seamus Blackley, Kevin Bachus, Ted Hase and Otto Berkes have created the X-Box video game machine to compete with Sony, Nintendo and Sega Enterprises in the fall of this year. The renegade engineers lobbied the software giant heavily for a game computer that claims to be 3 times faster than its competitors.

Author: Takahashi, Dean
Publisher: Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 2000
Innovations, Blackley, Seamus, Bachus, Kevin, Hase, Ted, Berkes, Otto

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Microsoft renews embedded-items push

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CEO of Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer is going to announce alliances with several semiconductor companies to enable Microsoft to develop special chips for devices running embedded operating systems.

Author: Buckman, Rebecca
Publisher: Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 2001
Embedded systems, Embedded system

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Microsoft backs off plan to add its links to other's Web sites; uproar over planned Smart Tags feature threatened to cloud the October launch of the Windows XP operating system

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Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows XP operating system has been criticized for trying to monopolize the Web. One feature of the operating system in particular called Smart Tags is causing hostile reactions among the "dot-coms." Samrt Tags would allow Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to turn any word on any Web site on the Internet to become a linkto the software concern's own Web sites and services.

Author: Mossberg, Walter S.
Publisher: Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 2001
Systems Software Pkgs (Micro), Evaluation, Product/Service Evaluation, Operating system, Operating systems (Software), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP (Operating system)

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Subjects list: United States, Computer software industry, Software industry, Software, Product development, Microsoft Corp., MSFT
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