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  1. The name Xbox was derived from a contraction of DirectX Box, a reference to Microsoft's graphics API, DirectX. The integrated Xbox Live service launched in November 2002 allowed players to play games online with or without a broadband connection.

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    My understanding is that the Xbox is called the Xbox because it owes its existence to DirectX, a technology that Microsoft wanted to get in the hands of developers and gamers. Originally, the company wanted to partner with a PC or console maker and just supply the software and underlying technologies, like DirectX.

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    By the way, why is Xbox called Xbox? Microsoft’s gaming brand is called Xbox, the name given to the very first console marketed by the Redmond firm. Its origin refers to the PC world. In 2001, Microsoft attacked the video game console market by launching the first Xbox.

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    Nov 12, 2020 · Microsoft has officially announced its two next-generation consoles: the Xbox Series X and the Xbox Series S.

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    Dec 17, 2019 · If I’ve got this right, then it means that Microsoft’s next-gen is simply called “Xbox”, with the overall generation, or perhaps the more powerful console being called Series X.

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    For months, alternate spellings of the name appeared in various reports and other writing, the most popular one being X-Box, but the one that the group itself adopted at the time was xBox with a cap on the “B.”

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