Microsoft shares post-NXE stats: Marketplace sales up, more friends online

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joystiq.com - 12/11/2008

Microsoft shares post-NXE stats: Marketplace sales up, more friends online

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Just three weeks after the - by all accounts, very successful - launch of the New Xbox Experience, Microsoft is ready to trumpet some statistics related to the new interface. To help us navigate this panoply of numbers, Microsoft lent us the services of one Mr. Aaron Greenberg, group product ...

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