Microsoft orders another website to remove "Xbox 720" document

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This weekend, an old but still confidential document from Microsoft was posted on the Scribd website. The presentation showed Microsoft's plans for the future of its Xbox game console business. The document was quickly taken down, thanks to Microsoft's lawyers, but not before it was picked up by pretty much every tech and gaming website there is. Now, yet another website has been ordered to remove a full copy of the two year old presentation.

Eurogamer.net reports that the Czech Republic-based technology site Ihned.cz was also given a formal takedown order by Microsoft's lawyers after it posted the document on the site, although some of its slides are still available for viewing. The (translated) message from the site says, "According to the legal department at Microsoft we're violating the copyright of the publication of the society."

This adds even more credence that this leaked document is in fact the real deal. The document described the next Xbox hardware as the "Xbox 720" with a full DVR set-up, support for Blu-ray, streaming game capabilities and more.

In a statement sent to Eurogamer, Microsoft said, "We are continually thinking about the future of the platform and when we have something to share, we will."

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FPS_RyanPosted:

This could just be a way that Microsoft is using to draw attention to the new xbox.

vegetajpPosted:

If Microsoft was smart, they would let people keep the document up. That way it's still just speculation. Them going to such lengths to remove it just lends credence to the legitimacy of the document.

Nit3KrawlrPosted:

This is a fake I heard the next Xbox is going to be a smaller scale of IBM's Watson. ;)

TrevorPosted:

this could be a real document

-NewYork-Posted:

720 is probably true

FameeMediaPosted:

DVR set up basically says, YOUR P*SSED to everyone that has a HDPVR, but also says, Smile, to those that dont (IF THIS IS TRUE, very likely as its a smart idea)

KramaticPosted:

Them doing this basically means that it's true.

iMeatPosted:

Lol Microsoft isn't very sneaky.

Mr_No_InchPosted:

i have the xbox 720 document on .pdf but i have no idea how to send it out to everyone

ToquePosted:

Bash lol all part of there plan to try and surprise us


True, we think it will be that, but it will be something different