[Am-info] XBox Economics

[John Poltorak]

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:21:46PM -0400, Sujal Shah wrote:

> 4 Datacenters cost a lot of money, especially when they're planning for
> the loads they are hoping for. 
> 
> The real question is whether the games will be there for Microsoft in
> the end.  One important aspect of Microsoft's model is that all the
> games will run on Microsoft's servers (servers run by MSFT, not just
> running MSFT's OS).  

With MSFT running four datacentres, all using Windows, I guess we can 
expect them to be down very soon after they go online. They seem like 
such obvious targets for hackers 


> ---- Sujal Shah --- sujal@sujal.net ---
> 
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John