Microsoft owns up to "E74" 360 errors, expands warranty

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Having just purchased a new Xbox 360, I'm glad to see things like this. Even though I really hope I never have to take them up their extended warranty on the Red Ring of Death.

A popular gaming blog tracked a new kind of Xbox 360 error, the E74, and Microsoft has finally owned up and added the issue to the three-year "Red Ring of Death" warranty. This is a win for consumers, but it's yet another black eye for Microsoft's hardware.

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This is just classic Windows error message fun. Leave it to Microsoft to cause a space time paradox in an operating system..

In what computer analysts and physicists all over the world have classified as "a clear and present danger to the survivability of the Human Race and the Universe as we know it," LA area-man and Gizmodo reader Kevin Barbee reports that his Windows Vista Problem Reporting has reported that it has stopped reporting

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