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Microsoft's $1 Billion Xbox 360 Recall Problems Caused By Chip Cheapness 
Gizmodo | by Jason Chen | Wed, Jun 11
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Microsoft's red ring Xbox 360 problems have cost the company about a billion dollars in warranty repairs, but the research vice president and chief analyst at Gartner said that the hardware problems were caused because Microsoft wanted to be cheap. Instead of using an application-spec...
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