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In article <8amoa8$d...@journal.concentric.net>, jim <j...@anon.com> wrote:
>In article <8amh1r$128i$1...@its1.ocs.lsu.edu>, k...@oldbit.csc.lsu.edu (Isaac Kuo)
>wrote:

>> I have a hunch that Microsoft started the X-Box project
>> because Sony didn't go in for Win-CE on PS2.  If Sony
>> had agreed to Win-CE on PS2 and Win32-based PS2 development
>> packages, Microsoft wouldn't have needed to worry about
>> Sony's intentions of making the PS2 a jack-of-all-trades
>> PC replacement.

>How much money could Microsoft really have made on licensing
>WinCE?  I can't imagine them seeing much of a market in it.
>The prospect of collecting fat royalties on each title sold
>with a completely new platform seems far more lucrative from
>a business sense.

According to my entirely unsubstantiated hunch, the issue
isn't really how much money they would make, but the removal
of a serious threat.  Sony's not just trying to shut out
Microsoft from their console, they're trying to actually
replace the PC with it!  Not only that, but the PS2 development
systems are based on Linux, a boost for a growing OS threat
to Microsoft's Win32 OS's.

But what if Sony licensed WinCE like Sega did and didn't use
a Linux based development system?  In that case, even if the
PS2 replaced the PC, Microsoft would still be making money
off of it, and probably be the premier developer of non-entertainment
software for it.

Like I said, though, it's just a hunch.
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