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New Microsoft Xbox first round in technology war

The new Microsoft Xbox that will be unveiled next week not only opens up a new front in the battle of the games consoles but also launches a whole new war.It's not just the games consoles that are going head to head while trying to hold off the rise of the app games. Microsoft's new Xbox is being called a first strike against Apple in a campaign for the next generation of TV.Microsoft has kept its cards close to its chest in the lead up to the unveiling of the new Xbox Wednesday morning, which is expected to be called the Xbox Infinity. But that hasn't stopped gaming writers from predicting what is to come.Paul Tassi, a writer for Forbes, sees this as a fork in the road between the Sony PlayStation 4 and the Xbox."Sony is going to have a laserlike focus on games this time around, while Microsoft wants to create a device that everyone, gamers and non-gamers alike, will want to have in their living rooms," Tassi recently wrote.The Microsoft Xbox 360 is already an "entertainment" unit, pr...

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