[devane617]

..."So, the Xbox 360's been available for, what, 15 minutes, and already the crash reports are streaming in,"...

Yet to figure out how MS stays in business producing crap...

[King Moonracer]

They can't limit unstable performance to PCs, don't ya know

[martin_fierro]

[ECM]

I've been playing mine a lot and it seems to be holding up, though there has been a few unnerving loading pauses in Ridge Racer 6 that weren't there for the first day =/

[diverteach]

I'm SOOOOOOOOO sick of crashing windows that there is NO WAY I'd buy anymore of thier products. My next PC will either be a Mac or running Linux.

The practice of selling products like Microsoft sells, and relying on customer feedback and bug reports to work out the glitches should be illegal.

Design it, Debug it and make it reliable, then market and sell it. Not design, sell, then work on the bugs.

[philsfan24]

did they try ctrl-alt-delete?

[ErnBatavia]

Yet to figure out how MS stays in business

You're kidding, right? A company that virtually revolutionized our society, and made a few million stockholders a few zillion dollars.

Unless you're Steve Jobs, I'll guess you're kidding...

[Lloyd227]

"Yet to figure out how MS stays in business producing crap..."

Being just a bit harsh here aren't we? My 360 has been running almost non-stop since 1:00 am Tuesday, running three different games and with 4 teenage boys to abuse it.

No problems at all to report here and from my own reading online, the true number of problem boxes out there is extremely small given the number of boxes put into production in this short time period.

Ease up on MS a bit and save your ammo for when they truly screw something up.

[Prime Choice]

Microsoft makes utter crap and rushes it to market under a hail of sycophantic media coverage?

Are we talking about the Xbox or the Windows operating system here? Nyack.

[calex59]

They said the same thing about 95, that there were a few "isolated" reports of malfunctions. Then they had to make two new version of it an finally went to 98 which was F***ked also and 98se which was better, to XP which is so full of holes that it is so pathetic that I went back to 98SE. MS always makes crap but they know how to market and that gets them by!

[rs79bm]

That's the first time I've heard of a Microsoft product crashing. Hmm..........

[Termite_Commander]

I snicker at Xbox and continue my hopeless and stubborn support of Nintendo.

=)

[ArtyFO]

They loaded the programs from a Sony disc.... uh oh.

[Essie]

My kids have been playing it, and it's fine so far. They really like the graphics.

[Grig]

Some people have reported that if you increase the airflow around or over the power brick that the problem goes away. Either put a fan blowing on it, or balance it over the top of an open box so there is airflow all around it.

[Tamerlane]

MS makes crap folks want to buy. My son was at the launch in the desert and managed to get two of the things for $850. Turned around and sold them both on Ebay for $2,500 on Wednesday.

Capitalism is wonderful.

[birbear]

The problem is the more sophisticated and interactive something is, the more the public can screw it up.

It's only cost feasible to test for x amount of bugs, for y amount of months with z amount of employees.

At some point you have to introduce the product to market, and then quell the ineveitble tide of bugs that you never thought of having to reproduce.

I've owned a number of MSFT products over the past 20 years. I've never had the problems that some people claim that they've had.

But then, I'm not the type to go dinking around with things much anyway. Pretty much I use the stuff as designed. I configure things to my convenience but I don't tweak the hell out of the stuff.

The people who tend to have the most problems are the ones who tweak the hell out of their stuff.

Not saying MSFT can't do a better job on some products. Just saying that the "average" user doesn't experience the same problems that a "knowledgable" user experiences.

[irons_player]

You got to love that sweat shop produced software.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Never ever be the first to by anything made by MS. They seem to always release it when it's still pretty much a late stage Beta....

[Safrguns]

Ping

[HHFi]

Or rather than wasting your time and rotting your mind, you could spend the same money at the book store.

Hee-hee! Tiptoeing quietly away now from the gamer flamers...