Microsoft offers to replace damaged &quot;Halo 3&quot; discs
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Microsoft Corp  is offering to  replace damaged discs of its just-launched &quot;Halo 3&quot; game for  the Xbox amid reports that special limited-edition packaging is  scratching them.
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Microsoft hopes the launch Tuesday of its much-anticipated &quot;Halo 3&quot; game will turn into another blockbuster that will fend off challenges from Nintendo&#39;s Wii and Sony&#39;s Playstation 3.
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Microsoft Corp  does not  expect sales of its Xbox 360 game console to suffer if Toshiba  Corp (6502.T) discontinues HD DVD technology, Microsoft said in  a statement on Monday.
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Microsoft promises to refund gamers who have experienced problems with its new Xbox Live video service.
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Computer giant Microsoft has launched a pilot scheme to replace counterfeit versions of Windows XP with legal ones. The first-time initiative is restricted to the UK and to users with pre-installed copies
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Users who fear that their Windows XP software might be counterfeit could get free legitimate replacements from Microsoft under a scheme announced last week.
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Plus: Microsoft to release three versions of Xbox 2. [News.com Extra]
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With two free movies Microsoft could ship an HD-DVD add-on drive for the Xbox 360 at Â£199 in time for Christmas, reports suggest.â¦
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Microsoft is starting a scheme to replace pirate versions of Windows XP with legal ones.
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Microsoft has begun a short-term validation programme aimed at tackling software piracy. Users are invited to have their copies of Windows XP analysed, with the promise that they will be replaced free of charge if found to be counterfeit.
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InfoWorld - Toshiba's announcement to end production of HD DVD players and recorders will not affect the Xbox 360, even though Microsoft offers an optional stand-alone HD DVD drive for the game console, Microsoft said in a statement Tuesday.
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Will the competing next-generation optical disc standards ever meet in the same device? Not for now, it seems.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft said Wednesday it will replace discs of its Halo 3 Xbox 360 game that were already scratched when users purchased them.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft said Wednesday it will replace discs of its Halo 3 Xbox 360 game that were already scratched when users purchased them. On its Xbox 360 Web site, Microsoft said an Xbox Disc Replacement Program will replace Halo 3 Limited Edition Game Discs and Essentials Discs at no charge through Feb. 1, 2008, but only for Xbox 360 console owners in countries where Xbox is sold at authorized retail locations. Microsoft released the highly anticipated Halo 3 Xbox 360 game on Tuesday at midnight, but some users found that their game discs were already scratched upon purchase. Some attributed the scratches to the company's packaging of the discs, which did not keep them in place. Users did not report any performance issues with the scratched discs. To get a new disc to replace one that was scratched, people who purchased Halo 3 and meet the program requirements can fill out and print a program form and send it to Microsoft. They should receive a replacement disc in about two weeks, according to the Web site. Halo 3 is the latest installment in the critically praised and enormously popular first-person shooter series developed by Bungie Studios. Microsoft said it had more than 1 million preorders of Halo 3 before its release this week, and fans lined up Monday outside of a New York Best Buy retail outlet for the game's launch hours before the game went on sale.
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The limited-edition packaging is scratching some discs of the just-released game.
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Microsoft Corp  is offering to replace damaged discs of its just-launched "Halo 3" game for the Xbox amid reports that special limited-edition packaging is scratching them.
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A video game fan upset over a failed disc drive in his Xbox video game console has sued Microsoft Corp. on behalf of all Xbox owners across the United States.