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I feel like there's a lot of either ignorance, or blind dislike of MS in this thread. How many companies develop something, then tell their R&D to go to Jamaica for 6 months? Natal's hardware is done and ready - yes they could continue making it more advanced for 2 more years before releasing it, but the same can be said for ANYTHING. You develop a product, you improve that product. That is normal. And if you're confident enough that it will be a success, you don't need to wait and see how it pans out before continuing development. The team that designed it would be the best team to continue making it more advanced. Why put them on something else? or tell them to twiddle their thumbs? Soon as Natal is (or was) finalized, they began working on the next generation of it. Makes sense.