No 'Red Ring Of Death'-style disasters for Xbox One, says Microsoft

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VGKing said:

Well Microsoft has a bad reputation with exceptionally high failure rates for the original 360. Sony doesn't. All their consoles failure rates have been within industry standards. 

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Just because something LOOKS like it will function properly and because Microsoft SAYS it will work fine, doesn't mean it will. Ex-employees have come out and admitted that Microsoft knew about the failure rate before launch. They didn't care, they had to be first. They downplayed the reports of failure rates until they were so common that they really had no choice but to admit they released a faulty product. So yes, it has everything to do with Xbox One as Microsoft has shown that for the sake of being competitive, they will continue as planned.

Just to be clear here, common sense tells me that Microsoft will avoid any type of RROD scenario with Xbox one. Although the common BSOD reports on my Windows 8 laptop are alarming. 

The BSOD errors on your laptop have nothing to do with the quality of Windows as an operating system.  They are most likely caused by a third-party device driver, or a corruption in a driver or the registry.  Most commonly this has been associated with a pirated copy of Windows 8.