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Former Microsoft game publishing vice president Ed Fries discussed the infamously heated meeting in 2000 in which Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer almost canned the original console.

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer nearly canceled the original Xbox during a heated 2000 meeting.

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