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I wonder what the motivation was to communicate this to employees now (knowing it would "leak"), versus just waiting until their event on 5/21. The rumor has be
by chucknelson 13y ago
I wonder what the motivation was to communicate this to employees now (knowing it would "leak"), versus just waiting until their event on 5/21. The rumor has been widespread for a while now, and I don't think two more weeks would have done much damage.
- larrik 13y agoPerhaps to try to avoid every headline after the 5/21 event being "XBox will work offline!" instead of whatever Microsoft wants them to focus on.
- meritt 13y agoIt's a sad world when a consumer purchased goods continuing to operate when not connected to the provider's network is somehow newsworthy. I wonder if we'll have a day when cars are like that: "Sorry, your Ford Go! subscription has expired and your car will remain offline until you remit payment"
- eli 13y agoI think you just described ZipCar :)