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Bill Gates 'absolutely' supports spinning off Xbox biz, but Microsoft committed to gaming unit – GeekWire
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Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates shakes hands with Atsushi Ishizaka of Kanagawa, Japan who was the first person in Japan to purchase the Xbox video game system February 22, 2002 in Tokyo.
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Bill Gates initially wasn't too happy about the original Xbox, thought it was "an insult to everything I've done" - OnMSFT.com
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