Microsoft to do that. Enter the X-Box. Rumors have been floating around for months but the official word only came down from the Microsoft mountaintop within the past few weeks. X-Box is real and is scheduled to obsolete everything in its path including the PC late next year. It all comes back to closed-architecture.
Developers can do a lot more with fewer resources when the system is locked down.
This hard drive allows programmers to cache frequently accessed data to the hard drive and free-up the DVD for playing audio and video. It will also replace those annoyingly small memory cards and let you save games and other data you might download from the web such as the NFL rosters for the year 2002. Microsoft also plans to offer a lower licensing fee to developers as an incentive to develop for the X-Box. The X-Box is being designed from the ground up to replace the PC as the gamers platform of choice and even Bill Gates isn t ashamed to admit it. Just look at the trend Windows 2000 is taking.