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chemgear · 11-08-2013, 08:39 AM

Verge having some interesting Microsoft/XBOX stuff:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/8/50...he-living-room

Xbox, watch TV: inside Microsoft's audacious plan to take over the living room

So the entire Xbox One is designed around what you might call a bold compromise: instead of directly integrating TV, the system hijacks it. Rather than plugging your cable box and Xbox into the TV separately, you first plug the cable box into the Xbox, and then the Xbox into the TV. Your cable box is still there, and still doing all the heavy lifting of providing TV, but now it’s doing it in service of the overall Xbox One experience. Smith describes it as "augmenting" the cable box experience in an effort to eliminate the friction of switching between games, apps, and TV.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/8/50...ng-xbox-rumors

Microsoft CEO candidate Stephen Elop said to consider selling Xbox business, killing Bing

Bloomberg also suggests that Elop is willing to shut down or sell some major Microsoft businesses. Elop would reportedly considering killing off the company’s Bing search engine, while contemplating selling the Xbox business. Some investors and analysts have previously called for the software giant to split off its Xbox business and give up on search. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen appears to feel the same way. Allen’s $15-billion asset manager, Paul Ghaffari, revealed recently that Bing and Xbox have been distractions for Microsoft.

11-08-2013, 08:39 AM	#746
chemgear Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2010 Exp:	Verge having some interesting Microsoft/XBOX stuff: http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/8/50...he-living-room Xbox, watch TV: inside Microsoft's audacious plan to take over the living room So the entire Xbox One is designed around what you might call a bold compromise: instead of directly integrating TV, the system hijacks it. Rather than plugging your cable box and Xbox into the TV separately, you first plug the cable box into the Xbox, and then the Xbox into the TV. Your cable box is still there, and still doing all the heavy lifting of providing TV, but now it’s doing it in service of the overall Xbox One experience. Smith describes it as "augmenting" the cable box experience in an effort to eliminate the friction of switching between games, apps, and TV. http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/8/50...ng-xbox-rumors Microsoft CEO candidate Stephen Elop said to consider selling Xbox business, killing Bing Bloomberg also suggests that Elop is willing to shut down or sell some major Microsoft businesses. Elop would reportedly considering killing off the company’s Bing search engine, while contemplating selling the Xbox business. Some investors and analysts have previously called for the software giant to split off its Xbox business and give up on search. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen appears to feel the same way. Allen’s $15-billion asset manager, Paul Ghaffari, revealed recently that Bing and Xbox have been distractions for Microsoft.