The announcement of movies

A November fifteen, 2001, a couple of months after the 11S, Microsoft began selling a gaming console, something that until now was seen as a risky bet by Microsoft, which until now entering the world of entertainment was limited Windows Media Player in Windows. A software company like Microsoft making consoles? There were numerous who predicted trouble for Microsoft in this area, but 10 years later, we can say that Microsoft has achieved expertise in the gaming world.

Xbox went on sale with a great advantage compared to other consoles, focused on online play, something that until now could be done in the PC world, but in the video game did not look to interest since it had the mentality was to play a video game person, or at most numerous people if they are at home. With competition as PlayStaiton 2, Nintendo GameCube and Sega Dreamcast, which by then Sega was in trouble, Microsoft was able to throw with great success since its first Xbox for the first time showed that Microsoft was able to create a good hardware in a nice box and surprisingly (we're talking Microsoft of the century) works very well.

The origin of Xbox

Four engineers at Microsoft, Kevin Bachus, Seamus Blackley, Ted Hase and Otto Berke began in 1998 a project to create a Windows-based console. These engineers, part of the development team DirectX , cleared a Dell laptop and integrated into a housing to develop a "traditional console." Originally based on the Windows 2000 kernel, operating system evolved into a fresh type of software from Microsoft.

The origin of the name is rather obvious knowing where they originate from the beginning, DirectX team. The project is internally called DirectX box that was shortened to something more simple and more commercial: Xbox.

Xbox 360

The original Xbox was discontinued by 2006, when it was about a year, Microsoft launched Xbox 360 in November 2005. If the first generation Xbox Microsoft demonstrated that it could compete against the powerful Sony, the second generation of Xbox ended up conquering the world.

Xbox 360 marked the arrival of a great console with a graphic power when even PlayStation 2 was in its death throes pre-arrival of the powerful PlayStation 3. But most of all Xbox 360 marked the final revolution to play online with your console with more than 56 million consoles sold worldwide.

We've sold numerous versions of Xbox 360, starting with the standard versions and Xbox 360 Core or Xbox 360 Arcade. Then came the hard drive versions with HDMI connectivity and Xbox 360 Pro or Xbox 360 Elite. Excluding special editions dozen each time a best-seller game went on sale.

His latest change continues to be designing and size. In late 2010 we could see a fresh generation came to the same graph to its original version, but that if a design much smaller and lighter.

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