> In his speech last saturday he made several (slightly) anti-microsoft jokes,
so
> this could very well have been one of them. He did say the Matsushia Sony
> X-machine was merely a name in response to Microsoft's version of MSX.
I wrote this before I listened to the recording, and I forgot to delete it.
Gates didn't like to connect his name to a machine with decreasing success ans
popularity.
> (at 9:36 Nishi said)
> "people ask always what does MSX stand for? some people say MicroSoft
> eXchangable or Matsushia Sony X-machine. Actually it meant Machine with
Software
> eXchangability, that was our original handle. But Gates said 'MSX is
> **Microsoft** (mysterious voice)' but then sales were going down and gates
> stopped saying it's microsoft, instead 'no it's Sony Matsushia'"
~Grauw
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