HipHardware has just slapped up an editorial concerning the Microsoft X-Box. Here a blurb:

Microsoft, the world's computer software leader, is going to make its own console gaming system? Well, maybe strange, but good from the looks of it. The system that they are planning to make looks very promising. Not only are they going to use hardware >from very, very good companies (like nVidia, and Intel) but the hardware is going to be customized for the system. And, Microsoft is going to use all of its knowledge of software programming to make it. Along with all of that, it is going to use DirectX as the core, so it will have a smaller learning curve for programmers, which will bring better first generation games.

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