Microsoft has won two court cases in China to wrest ownership over a collection of Xbox related domain names bought by a speculator in that country. The disputed domain names that Microsoft now has control over include XboxPhone.com, XboxTablet.com, XboxLiveTV.com, XboxCompanion.com, Xbox8.us and Xbox8.org. It’s easy to understand why the company would wish to own some of these domain names but what about Xbox8.us and Xbox8.org?
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Reasons for the next generation Xbox to be called Xbox 8:
Windows 8 Windows Phone 8 The console may use Windows 8 as its OS An 8 on its side resembles the infinity symbol which could be made good use of in marketing campaigns It may be approximately 8 times more powerful than the current generation The Xbox 8 may have an 8-core CPU 8 is a very lucky number to the vast Chinese population
Next Xbox to be called Xbox 8?
Posted on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 20:06 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck