As a current owner of an old generation xbox I was truly looking forward to buy the new xbox 360. Although, I felt the Wii would be better for my children I figured with all the old games and such the xbox was a given. So now after waiting close to 18 months for Microsoft to redo the internals with something that doesn't run as hot as my oven, I finally gave in and bought a Wii. Yes the graphics aren't as great and yes I think its over priced but the games are addictive the united is half the size and after playing for hours it barely gets warm!

In my view Microsoft while a great "software" has totally mismanaged this hardware platform. For starters they should have transitioned back in Jan, 2007 to the new .065 process added internal or at least external blue-ray DVD, redid the motherboard to support the latest video/HI-Fi standards with up to date HDMI 1.3 SPECS and the most important added motion sensing tech to make the xbox 360 truly interactive like the Wii.

If I was running this ship quite a few individuals would be walking the plank!!!

Sorry MSFT you truly screwed up and my business in now gone.

google is a 500$ a share bubble. for that kind of stock price, they are expecting a lot more than the normal growth...or else it's a great bubble to watch out.

What I think Google should do: Encourage employees to buy shares, and not just a bunch of them, all of them. Shareholders are interested in one thing alone, and that is fast and quick instead of the global vision of Google and it's staff, and that's why Joe and Jane are not the best persons to hold Google shares. There is not such thing as "Too much R&D" if you are a world leader. If you are the underdog, it might be worth paying royalties or buying the R&D of others, but if you're on top and want to stay that way you've got to invest.
I'm still hoping Google will come up with something in the OS area and beat the **** out of MS!
By the way, my comment on an article about the 1.5 TB HDD, that everybody was commenting about how small their first HDD was, did not go through, but nathan's comment above did? Twice?

I'm getting tired of the over-dramatization of reporting these days. "Sink"? Give me a break. Google is very much afloat, and will probably stay that way for many years to come. Keep the drama to soap opera shows. I prefer to come here for tech news, not the daily dirt.

If they were ever to tank,
You'de have a lot of starved employees...
So much for the google entrees.