Microsoft fire interviewee

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Thing is, when he started the job i would be willing to bet he signed a contract with a clause in it stating he wouldn't discuss those sorts of matters with press and/or the public. If that's the case, he broke it and therefore shurely it's well within their rights to dismiss him and/or sue?
 
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So if what he's saying is true software alone can cause RROD's?

“If you coordinated the music player with the dashboard, you could get almost every 360 to lock up,” he said in an interview. “I did it first on a combo DVD/audio disk. With NBA 2K6, you would select the music. The screen went black.”

The NBA 2K6 flaw resulted in the Red Rings of Death.
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Informative article.

Jerry Knoben, a former Intel manufacturing chief, joined Microsoft in January this year as head of Xbox 360 manufacturing. He recently sent out a memo to the staff saying that the yield on Xbox 360 production had improved from the mid-80-percent-range to 92 percent. But he said that there were still some surprises in manufacturing that Microsoft had to fix.

The improved consoles use a new motherboard, dubbed Jasper. This one has both a 65nm IBM microprocessor as well as a 65nm graphics chip from AMD. The improved graphics chip may finally run at acceptable thermal limits.
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So basically all 90nm GPU's are poorly designed and destined to fail sooner or later... I guess that explains why Microsoft went for the extended warranty instead of recalling all consoles until they were fixed, it just wasn't fixable short term.
 
Where is the actual interview with Robert, seems like it's been removed from the original article?
 
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