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o my gawwddd… I can’t believe it… buying a game console is as good as buying a car… 3 years warranty!!!

Microsoft or Redmond got fade up with unacceptable hardware failures in its new generation game console Xbox 360 has decided to extend the warranty to EVERYONE… old and new box… cool… Redmond says:

“As of today, all Xbox 360 consoles are covered by an enhanced warranty program to address specifically the general hardware failures indicated by the three flashing red lights on the console. This applies to new and previously-sold consoles. While we will still have a general one year console warranty (two years in some countries), we are announcing today a three-year warranty that covers any console that displays a three flashing red lights error message. If a customer has an issue indicated by the three flashing red lights, Microsoft will repair the console free of charge-including shipping-for three years from the console’s purchase date.”

3 flashing red lights?… is there a “backdoor” for that… say, if I have 2 flashing red lights, can I make it 3 flashing red lights instead…LOL…

Redmond will take a pretax charge of more than $1 billion to repair defects in its next- generation game machine…. wow… estimate of USD$1 billion for repairing alone? pretax?… damm… how much are they making for the consoles anyway huh…???

And, sure there gonna be another Xbox 360 & PC Halo competitions in this coming TechEd SEA 2007!!!… wanna collect some Microsoft T-Shirts 😉

Look at this…. 🙂

I did not steal them… me and friend ‘rip it off’ after the TechEd 2003 at Putra World Trade Center. I’m sure everyone like to have a piece from any occasion as a souvenir… right 😉 I stick it at my office glass wall.

Check out what I found in the store room and behind the cupboard… My Microsoft TechEd bags!

And they are full of dust… poor bags. I never used them after TechEds. But now, it has been cleaned and pack into plastic bag so no dust will attack them again 🙂

  
TechEd 2007 SEA bag… its still OK 🙂
TechEd 2004 Malaysia bag… and its not OK, the straps are rotten… disintegrated 🙁
TechEd 2003 Malaysia bag… and its still OK 🙂

These are the kids doing the Operation Cleaning Microsoft Bags! 😉 They are my nephews.

And I also found this bag… I won this bag in the www.msn.com.my some years back, I have 2 of them 😉 So, I gave the kids one each 🙂

These are my Microsoft TechEd tags… 🙂

Microsoft TechEd SEA 2007 will be held in Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from 10th to 13th September 2007. Its going to be the 3rd TechEd SEA. The 1st TechEd SEA was held in Singapore in 2005 and the 2nd was held in Kuala Lumpur in 2006. TechEd has been held many times before in Malaysia but it was formerly known just as TechEd Malaysia xxxx. They started using the name TechEd SEA in 2005 for the first time in Singapore.

I’ve attended 3 TechEd so far… twice TechEd Malaysia and once TechEd SEA. I attended TechEd Malaysia 2003 & 2004 and TechEd SEA 2006. I skipped 1 year for TechEd SEA 2005 which was held in Singapore, the reason I did not have the chance to attend it.

This year, I’m gonna attend the TechEd SEA 2007… yea for real again!