Winkler said that situation has improved at Microsoft, even as the company faces a more testing challenge because of the added functionality that's being built in to Windows.

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And the 38-year-old said the step-up to league football has provided his current crop of players with an extremely testing challenge.

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It was an unusual request but an interesting challenge for the engineers who spend their time testing, dismantling, and figuring out how a cheater might compromise any of the thousands of loud, dizzying, dazzling slot machines licensed in the state.

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