said it has received isolated reports of glitches with its Xbox 360 video-game console from consumers in the first days after the model went on sale.

The reports represent "a very small fraction" of the Xbox machines sold, Microsoft spokeswoman Molly O'Donnell said Friday in an e-mail. Users complained on Web sites -- including xbox-scene.com and teamxbox.com -- that games stopped during play and the machines unexpectedly turned off.

Microsoft expects to sell up to 3 million Xbox 360s in the next three months as the company battles No. 1 ., which won't release its Play-Station 3 machine until next year. Microsoft in February offered to replace power cords for about 70% of the original Xbox consoles after reports of fires caused by electrical component failures. The Xbox 360 went on sale Tuesday.

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office said he won't press criminal charges against Maurice (Hank) Greenberg, the former CEO of ., eliminating a possible complication in defending Spitzer's civil suit against him.

Spitzer sued Greenberg, 80, and New York-based in May, alleging the world's biggest insurance firm used accounting tricks to mislead regulators and investors. Spitzer's spokesman Darren Dopp said Friday the state isn't pursuing criminal charges against Greenberg, who left AIG in March.

"I have a lot of respect for companies, particularly those which are struggling because I don't know what kind of problems that they are really facing," he said Friday, adding that being an insider at an automaker is necessary to understand its problem. "They know it, but we don't."

As chief executive at Nissan Motor Co., Ghosn engineered a dramatic revival at Japan's No. 2 automaker from near bankruptcy to profitability and stable growth after Renault SA of France took a stake in Nissan in 1999.

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