Post – October 31, 2001

With just a few days until launch, reports that Microsoft’s X-Box video game console is freezing up and otherwise behaving like the PCs that bedevil us all make me smile. But the gaming community is much more ruthless and unforgiving than the huddled masses toiling over their Excel spreadsheets, so Bill Gates will have to fix the thing – and fast – if he doesn’t want this whole enterprise to go up in flames.

It’s good that he has a little thing called Windows to fall back on.