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Article: Xbox Video-Game Console Opens Microsoft to Fun.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- February 26, 2001
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By Sharon Pian Chan, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 26--This is a conference room where you could plot the end of the world.
The entrance is flanked by steel panels. The room glows Kryptonite green. Metal walls slide back to reveal technology prototypes. A laser light of green is embedded on the surface of the conference table. Tap on a flat-screen monitor, and a projector screen hums out of the ceiling. Tap it again, and a live video of the room streams onscreen. This den of destruction is Microsoft's.
This isn't your daddy's Microsoft, though. The room is in a building that sits four miles from the main campus. ...