This is crazy how Microsoft, although everyone knows that the "red rings of death" happen so much, will still go to Lengths as to firing someone over it. It's also crazy that someone, who willingly knows that he will get fired, talks about inside information from Microsoft. "For Delaware, this likely came as no surprise. He was breaking company policy by dishing the details on the Xbox 360 defects." He was hired through a temp agency, which is not exactly like firing the VP, but still sends a message.
Now you might be thinking after reading the article hey this isn't news, a guy was hired by a temp agency (usually you hire though temp agencies so you can fire at whim), he signed a contract saying he was supposed to spill the beans, he spilled, he got fired, end of story. Well the real message that Delaware was trying to get across, is that Microsoft will release products early just to hit the market before competitors just to capture the extra buck. This could give them a better scope of people to sell too. This product was obviously too early in development. The numbers do not lie http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080214-xbox-360-failure-rates-worse-than-most-consumer-electornics.htmlSo was this a savvy business move or another screw up for Microsoft? Well they are making a lot of money off of the xbox, but did they do it at the customers expense? It's really not that fun having your xbox shipped back to the company because of a defect (assuming it's still under warranty).
I have actually seen this "red rings of death" happen to many of my friends. There are many reasons that the "red rings of death" happen but mostly because the system overheats and melts the metal inside the xbox. This can be fixed by wrapping your xbox in some towels and leaving it on. This will overheat your xobx again, which will allow more things inside your xbox to solder/unsolder themselves.
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