Reasonable said:
I doubt it's going to hurt MS much as overall the coverage has been tiny next to RROD - but it can't help them that's for sure. |
Google yields plenty of cases and coverage (near RRoD results).
I think nowadays E-74 is mainly just RRoD, maybe they changed the default behaviour (for some problems) with a firmware update (XNE) so it costs them less (not covered by extended warranty) or so they hoped. It seems so and this wouldn't surprise me at all.
They denied major problems with regard to the original RRoD as well, up to the point of class action lawsuits (like now with E-74) and having to report to shareholders. In a recent lawsuit Microsoft employees testified Microsoft was aware of disc scratching issues before launch, other documents support the notion of Microsoft having been aware of RRoD before launch as well (but how couldn't they have been, considering mass failure of launch units... 
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