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Lakers Center Shaquille O'Neal Takes His Game Online, Challenging Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
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January 2003 (Newstream) -- In a twist on the Western play-offs, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates publicly demoed Midtown Madness 3, which launches as an Xbox Live-enabled game later this year. As part of his keynote address at the annual Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday night in Las Vegas, Gates showed off the newly launched Xbox Live service by taking on Laker Center Shaquille O'Neal, who played from Los Angeles. Gates and O'Neal trash talked using the Xbox Live Communicator headset and demonstrated other features of the service.

Since it launched on Nov. 15 in the United States, more than 250,000 Xbox Live starter kits have been sold, doubling original sales expectations. And the social connections grow by the hour with over 40,000 unique users a day. And that's not all. With over 50 live enabled games scheduled to launch this year. It's a whole game with Xbox and Xbox Live.

Xbox (http://www.xbox.com/) is Microsoft's future-generation video game system that delivers the most powerful games experiences ever. Xbox empowers game artists by giving them the technology to fulfill their creative visions as never before, creating games that blur the lines between fantasy and reality. Xbox is now available in North America, Japan, Europe, Mexico and Australia.

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