Gates hints at sharing Xbox secrets
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
In its quest to gain ground in the video-game world, will Microsoft's Xbox business take a page from the company's Windows playbook? That's the lingering question after Bill Gates, in a recent interview with a Japanese newspaper, didn't rule out the possibility of someday making the underlying Xbox technology available for other companies to offer in their own hardware, not just in Microsoft's own console.
The interview in Japan's Nikkei newspaper fueled reports speculating that Microsoft might attempt to spread the infrastructure for playing Xbox games in much the same way that it has made Windows ubiquitous on computers -- by licensing it out to a variety of hardware makers.