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In 2001 Microsoft released the Xbox, an electronic game console that quickly captured second place in the video gaming market. In 2002 Microsoft launched Xbox Live, a broadband gaming network for their consoles. A more powerful gaming console, the Xbox 360, was released in 2005. The following year the company launched the Zune family of portable media players in an attempt to challenge the...
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