[jaguar]

Ywa but the point is msft has lots of divisons where they've written off and plan to write off billions, you can only do that for so long when your market share isn't really growing. Money sure does talk, but stuff can still suck. Money can buy a lot of things but it can't get rid of suck, Microsoft stills seems to be hemmoraging suck.

XBox is good, but that that wonderful, they can spend a few hundred mil on advertising but it still won't be a great product and Sony aren't exactly a small company either.

I think Maggie you might be on the right track but i don't think it's that narrow, the real test will be with Xbox 2, that will give us a much better picture of the direction of the xbox. I do see your point though. On the other hand i don't think Palladium will ever achieve what it was meant to do. I don't think consumers will swallow it either. It's liek they've been reading too much IBM business theoy from 20 years ago "if we lock everyone down so noone else can do anything, we'll control everything and have a complete monopoly!!!".

History is on the side of openness