Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experience

It's a Different Part of MSFT, slowbox: It's their Young Turks, who are still hungry and eager to innovate as a way to make their names (the same smart MSFT people who came up w/PhotoHD and the 2nd-Gen Zune). It also helps, to be fair, that there isn't a few decades of backwards compatibility with a LOT of different applications and devices to contend with - the xBox 360 is a Walled Garden, same as the Mac is, and they share many of the same advantages.

My dream is that the xBox Team, the Silverlight Team, the Windows Media Center Team and the Zune/xBox Store Team all get together to build a soup-to-nuts Home Entertainment, DVR, Web Surfing and Basic Computing Center around the xBox 360 - sort of like what the AppleTV is supposed to be, only with games and basic use software like a simple office program compatible w/Office 07. It wouldn't have to come w/much else at first - you could buy xBox discs to install further programs or download them from the expanded Store (hmm - where have I seen that recently? ), a Bluetooth keyboard and pointing device could come standard w/it, and store extra data and maybe even run apps in the Cloud where MSFT is headed anyway.

This way, MSFT wouldn't have to acquire anybody to be competitive - they have all the tools within their own structure...if only they put them together and use them.; Posted by: drprod@... Posted on: 08/07/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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their OS john_gillespie@... | 08/07/08

External donnellb | 07/23/08

Excellent point NonZealot | 07/23/08

it will get there coffeeshark | 07/23/08

Really? lightsaber777 | 07/28/08

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