The CPU problem was pretty much fixed with the introduction of the Falcon revision for all of the 360 iterations. Jasper, as the article says, will do the same for the GPU.
As for the Inquirer article, I’d be amazed if that happened to be quite honest. Even if Microsoft do it they’ll need to be very clear that they have no intention of releasing any games on the BR platform. If not then the backlash from console owners could be far more vocal than they imagine.