Si en la XBox!! Bueno esto es otro pasito de Microsoft en la implementacion del no existente proyecto de la HomeStation (un pasito de 800millones de $), que que es eso, pues la makinita que quiere el Gates que quite el puesto al PC que todos conocemos. Abajo he puesto un articulo de la homestation. ¿¿Sera asi la Xbox2??
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"Following on from the recent price drop in Europe and Australia, Microsoft has committed $800 million in research and development for Xbox and MSN. Microsoft clearly see's Xbox as the way to global domination in the home and the office, and they are looking at Xbox to help boost a slow-down in PC software.Microsoft needs to do something to revive its growth rates, analysts say.
Its core PC operating system and software businesses have slowed to low single-digit sales growth. That's a far cry from historical growth rates of 25%.
But the new businesses won't be a slam dunk. Take Xbox. Microsoft is slashing console prices in Europe and Japan to kick-start worse-than-expected sales there. It also cut projections for total console shipments in this fiscal year by at least 1 million units to 3.5 million to 4 million units.
Microsoft faces many challenges as it diversifies. "They're going from a slow- or no-growth business with very high margins into much higher growth markets, but with much lower margins and much more competition," said Eric Upin, an analyst with Robertson Stephens."
"Microsoft denied it is building the HomeStation, a rumored living room entertainment hub that industry watchers have speculated could combine the software giant's Xbox videogame console with digital video, music, and Internet functions.
HomeStation rumors were sparked last September by a report in PC Format magazine that such a device would cross the Xbox with a PC and boast a bigger hard drive, audio and video technology, and a wireless connection.
HomeStation talk resurfaced earlier in January as one analyst said he could confirm the existence of the machine in Microsoft and that it could debut later this year.
"This reared its head several weeks ago. The odd thing is there is no thing called the HomeStation product or initiative," Microsoft spokeswoman Erin Brewer said Friday.
Microsoft was interested in "some of the longer-term ideas, but there's no product called that," Brewer said.
Talk that Microsoft could beef up the Xbox with music, movies, TV recording, email, and instant message capabilities has abounded since the company announced the product in 2000. The Xbox went on sale last November in the United States.
Company executives have admitted that the Xbox -- with its PC-like design using an Intel processor, Nvidia graphics chip, 8GB hard drive, and fast Internet jack -- is capable of doing more than just playing games, but have insisted they are just focusing on games.
However, last November, CEO Steve Ballmer told an analyst conference that there was a "bigger play" than videogames that the company hoped to eventually achieve with the Xbox.
Microsoft was exploring lots of possibilities in the areas of interactive television and PC-based digital entertainment, Brewer said, adding some of those ideas could eventually make their way into the Xbox.
"In the longer term, we [do] have plans like that, but there's nothing concrete in the works yet," Brewer said.
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