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IMO if you want to raise red flags for the IRS to audit you, then file a video game console as a business expense on your taxes. There is no way it would be worth the risk - even if someone actually used it for business reasons (you could always invite clients to your office to play video games and watch tv then claim it as an entertainment expense!)

the harder MSFT tries w the XBONE the worse they make it sound- How could a company w as many resources (both human and capital) screw up their message so badly so many times?

It is difficult to fathom and sounds to me like the decision to go in the direction they tried was one made outside the gaming division- and either Don Mattrick was too much of a "yes man" to stop it or he had no choice in the matter- usually even the big boss will not blatantly go against the direction of a whole division of the company w out at least some key support in that division in order to get some cover if it blows up