Thursday, October 2, 2014

Windows 10 and Xbox One

Microsoft revealed, or rather teased, about Windows 10 the other day. And the good ol' rumor mill has already started to work. International Business Times writes that Xbox One will have Windows 10 and that how all platforms will use unified apps.

They also claims that we will be able to stream Xbox One games through our web browser to what ever device we want. The future is here, or rather will be here... In the future.

I think the rumor has gone a bit to far, Microsoft said that they will bring the platforms together to one product family, with the same application platform for developers. This will make it much easier for developers to make apps across all of the platforms, but it won't make all the apps accessible to every device. Although the idea is to have all the apps in the same place, so there will be one app store to rule them all.

Now, about that streaming Xbox One games. It sounds really awesome! A bit to awesome really. I think that someone at IBT got a little to exited about Microsofts Project DeLorean, which really is a cloud based streaming service for gaming. Who knows, maybe we'll see it soon, but I still think it's some years away, even if they have the tech with their Azure servers the magnitude of this would require them to consider how it would change the market.

We can always hope, cause I wouldn't have a problem with playing some Xbox One games on my Surface or any other mobile device.

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