XBox Reality Log
From Techrights
XBox and XBox360 have lost Microsoft literally billions of dollars. At present, the unit still operates at a loss.
Too little is known about the agony of this business, whose leaders gradually abandoned. Here is a list of posts on the subject.
Contents |
2008
- Eye on Microsoft: Failures on the Desktop, Server, Console, and Mobile
- Microsoft Gags Own Employees to Put Customers’ Life at Risk
- Eye on Microsoft: Fun with Windows, Malware, XBox360
- Eye on Microsoft: Failures Du Jour (XBox, Live, Vista)
- Microsoft Sued Again for XBox 360 Failures, Slammed for Deception and FUD
- Microsoft Xbox Sued Again, This Time for Software Patent Infringement
2009
January
February
March
- Microsoft Struck by More XBox 360 Lawsuits, Xbox 360 Elite Might be Taken off the Shelves
- Eye on Microsoft: Failures Galore This Week
April
May
- Microsoft’s XBox Group Still Operates at a Loss, XBox Director Quits
- Kill Switches for XBox 360s, Internet Explorer, and Windows
June
- Microsoft CTO Jumps Ship
- Top-Level Microsoft Executive Quits, No Replacement to be Made Amid Xbox Exodus
- Zune and Xbox Still Circling Down the Drain After Long Downtime
July
August
- Microsoft Sued for Selling Inherently-defective Xbox 360s, Other Bad Xbox News
- Xbox 360 Failure Rate Reportedly 54.2%, Microsoft Exodus Reported by Insider
- Microsoft Raises Prices, Dodges Old Brands
September
- Microsoft Still in Court for Failure with Xbox 360
- Microsoft is Sued for Another Technical Failure in Xbox 360
- Latest Xbox 360 Blows (Extending Microsoft’s Financial Losses)
October
- Microsoft Games — Not Just Consoles — Are Defective, Failing
- Microsoft Pink is Already Declared Dead and Danger Dies with Permanent Data Loss
- Microsoft Xbox 360: Rented, Not Owned
- Microsoft’s Gadgets and Consoles Still Ridiculed and Avoided
November
- Fail, Fail, and Fail for Microsoft Cash Drainer, Xbox 360
- Xbox 360 (Live) Users Banned, Buyers Flee
- Microsoft Sued Over Xbox 360 Again, Lawsuit for Banning Likely Too
- Microsoft Sued for Deliberately Making Competitor’s Product “Become Incompatible”
December
- Xbox 360 Still in the Gutter as Innocent Customers Get Banned, BBC Deal Falls Through
- Microsoft Makes Vista 7 More Expensive and Starts Forcing Users to Migrate
2010
January
- Failures in Xbox, Zune, and Windows Mobile Mark “Microsoft’s Downward Spiral”
- Latest Vista 7 Failures, Xbox 360 Failures, and Microsoft Cartel
- Microsoft Implicitly Acknowledges Failure in Consoles, Search, and Mobile
- People Are Getting Rid of Xbox 360 as Sales Drop to 7th Position in Japan
- Former Walmart Manager: “Walmart is De-emphasizing and Taking Shelf Space from the Xbox 360”
- Microsoft Sued Again (Class Action) Over Xbox 360, British Airways Pulls Microsoft Into Court
- Microsoft is Lying to the Public with NPD (Again)
February
- Microsoft is Killing Another Xbox Product and Vista 7 is Already in Trouble
- Xbox 360 Still Under Many Lawsuits
- Microsoft’s Gadgets/Hardware Business is Collapsing (Zune, Xbox, Mobile)
March
- MSBBC Continues to Abuse GNU/Linux Users While Promoting Microsoft Products (at Taxpayers’ Expense)
- Latest Failures in Windows Mobile, Zune, and Xbox 360
- Microsoft’s Console Strategy: Imitation and Patenting
- Xbox 360 Dies Without a “Coffin” and Microsoft’s Other Hardware Endeavours Seemingly a Dead End
April
- Microsoft’s Hardware Business is Failing, So Microsoft Sues Rival for Patent Violation
- Microsoft is Accused of Lying Again, About Xbox
- Microsoft Enabling Slavery and Original Xbox Live Dies
- Xbox 360 Still Failing for Half of Microsoft’s Customers as Company Sails Abroad for Savings
- Latest Microsoft Hardware Failures: Kin, Xbox, and Zune
- Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Almost Last in Terms of Sales
May
- Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Suffers Another Blow, Delay, Downtime, and Antitrust Lawsuit
- Another Abandonment of Microsoft: XBMC (XBMC finally hangs up on Microsoft’s Xbox, leaving the monopolistic company in more of an embarrassing state)
- Former Microsoft Manager Knows That Xbox 360 is Failing, Ballmer Admits It
June
- As Xbox 360 Abandoned by Managers, Sony Gains, Microsoft Sued for Faulty Xbox 360 Hardware, and Bungie Gets Betrayal
- http://techrights.org/2010/06/14/xbox-360-nymshifts/
- The ‘New’ Xbox 360 is Dead on Arrival as Microsoft Copies Mistakes, Fixes Nothing, Bribes Journalists
- Why Microsoft Was the Loser at E3
- Microsoft Xbox 360: New Casing, Same Faulty Design Underneath
- Microsoft is Just Copying and Playing Catch-up in Consoles
July
August
- Another Microsoft Cancellation as Xbox Struggles, Loses Windows Games Compatibility
- Microsoft’s KINect is the next KIN-Like Disaster (and Why Kinect Patents Are All That’s Left)
- Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Suffers From “Storage Problem”
- Microsoft Xbox 360 Banned by China, But Microsoft Continues to Abduct Government Seats, Data
- Failure of Microsoft’s KINect Could Kill Xbox 360
- Microsoft is Already Down-Speccing KINect, Loses an Exclusive
- Latest Signs That Xbox 360 is a Dying Product, Ignored Even by Game Developers, Banned in China
- Microsoft Can’t Do Hardware
September
- Amazon Dumps Xbox Live Arcade Games
- Microsoft’s Director of Game Platform Strategy Quits, Could Further Pollute Amazon
- Halo Coverage (Hype) is Fake, Largely Paid For; Xbox 360 (Slim) Sells Just 700 Units in Japan in Debut Week
- Microsoft KINect Has Problems and It’s Behind the Competition (Buttonless)
- No Sex and No 'Gay' on Microsoft Xbox 360
- http://techrights.org/2010/09/27/halo-reach-marketing-blitz/ Microsoft Starts Advertising a Game Rather Than a Failed Console
November
2011
We stopped tracking the product at this stage
- Microsoft Failed in the Hardware Business
- Anticompetitive Remote Kill Switches for Microsoft Xbox
- Crime in Xbox Land
2012
- Xbox 360 for 300 Suicides
- Microsoft’s DRM-Box-as-a-Computer Concept is Dying (XBox)
- Microsoft is Ripping Off Xbox 360 Partners
2013
- Microsoft Brings the Notion of Buying Games to End, Consumer Rights Groups Should Sue
- With Xbox, Microsoft Helps Spy on Living Rooms, Not Just Personal Space Through Webcam/Microphone (Skype)
- Microsoft Dirty Tricks to Promote Xbox One Vapourware
- Microsoft’s Very Latest Ways of Spying on People Far Worse Than Google’s and Facebook’s
- The Man in Charge of Xbox Is Leaving Microsoft
- Xbox Live Shows Even Higher Degree of Microsoft/NSA Collusion
2014
- Snowden Leaks Confirm That Microsoft Xbox is Target for In-House Camera Surveillance, Not Just Chat Surveillance
- Xbox Last: Chief Product Officer Abruptly Quits Microsoft
2015
2023
Growing speculations by now that XBox would die soon (amid layoffs).
- Why Microsoft Was Trying to Buy Activision and 'Look Big' in 2022 (XBox Was Failing, XBox as a Whole Might Die Soon)
- Sony Won the Console Wars a Long Time Ago
- Windows and XBOX’s Greenwashing Tactics Fail to Address Real Energy and Security Issues: Why GNU/Linux and Nintendo Offer Better Alternatives
