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Those who remember Microsofts first console as the DirectX Box probably already know why. The Xbox was meant to be a Windows machine, but it turned out to be something quite different.
Gates and Ballmer gave the Xbox team $500 million in project funding and a blessing. But a year after the Xbox project was underway, none of the promised code was making it back to the Windows team. And "it made Bill very, very pissed off," Brown recalls. "There was not a lot of shared code. It's very frustrating," he says.
Gates and Ballmer gave the Xbox team $500 million in project funding and a blessing. But a year after the Xbox project was underway, none of the promised code was making it back to the Windows team. And "it made Bill very, very pissed off," Brown recalls. "There was not a lot of shared code. It's very frustrating," he says.