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| Time: 00:23 EST/05:23 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Microsoft Corp. has announced the launch of Windows Live Messenger on Xbox 360, connecting people across Xbox 360 consoles, Microsoft Windows-based PCs and Windows Mobile-powered devices. With this update to Xbox 360, people can connect and chat directly from their television using Windows Live Messenger, a network of more than 20 billion relationships and more than 260 million active accounts. Beginning the week of May 7, the Xbox 360 spring update will provide Xbox 360 owners worldwide with access to Windows Live Messenger features, broadening the communication options on the Xbox LIVE social network. | ||
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| #1 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 4/11/2007 2:55:14 AM |
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If there are a couple of dropped balls related to Vista, gaming and the promised cross platform interactions between the consoles and PC's has to be cheif among them.
<The other is Windows Media Center, but that deserves its own thread> While the potential is there and I am sure that eventually, things will be delivered, Vista largely ignored gamers up front and a huge opportunity was missed. PC enthusiasts drive so much in the PC industry and gamers are at the heart of this group. While I am personally not a big gamer <I suck at them, frankly>, I love to build PC's that gamers and PC enthusiasts love to own and use. Not much feels as good as seeing a customer really stoked by a rig that we build and deliver to them. I save every email where a young son of a customer expresses his love for one of the rigs we hand build. I buy, run and get my ass kicked in about every game there is - just so I can see how well I can support them and try to keep some kind of understanding of what gamers want in a system. Microsoft pumped the neighbor's cat on this one. They fudged a football. I liked Jim Allchin and respected what he did, but I never got the feeling that he loved PC's. As my crew has grown up, bought houses, had kids and perhaps grown weary of the seemingly endless litany of updates, issues to manage and systems to integrate, I have seen some of the boyish racer and passion fade. I guess that is a product of having a lot more power than one uses. Gamers are different - nothing is ever good enough and their passion never fades. I really think that their energy drives the best parts of the PC industry and that is what made the "Games for Windows" and cross platform gaming so important and such a rich area filled with so much potential to continue to drive the PC forward and build buzz and support for Vista. That didn't happen and it should have. Drivers for hot new cards should have been ready. The connections to Xbox 360, the market place and most of all, Halo 2 for the PC, should have been there. The buzz would have followed. Unrestricted access to Xbox/Games for Windows Live [or whatever they end up calling it], should be FREE - NO FEES. Make your fees on downloads of premium content. That didn't happen either. PC gamers, used to running their own gaming servers aren't going to like paying for what they normally access for free. Massive amounts of support to dev houses using DX10 should have been provided - no matter the cost - that money would easily have provided hundreds of millions of free viral marketing for Vista. That didn't happen and it should have. |
| #2 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 4/11/2007 2:55:53 AM |
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Mags, Rags and Forums would have "must buy" labels all over Vista - instead, Pubs like Maximum PC seem to have given up and their pages are filled with reasons not to upgrade and lame assed material written by guys dating Ubuntu. WTF???? From a gamer centric mag?
Did the poles suddenly flip when I was napping? Where Oh where did Boot Magazine go? All that tells me that people are bored - the PC has evolved and devolved at the same time. Enthusiasts were the key and among them, gamers and people that respect their endless passion and energy are, or WERE the most enthusiastic among them. Microsoft let them down and at the same time, cost itself the most important arrow in their quiver - that MUST HAVE IT drive that moves all things forward. We can say that the focus on Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii did it - all the power, and spiffy new graphics... BS, Horse-Hockey, and Uh... No! Not have squat as an alternative did it. Gamers are bored, sick of game pads and eager for a freaking keyboard and mouse - and not so they can text their girlfriends or tag some gayffer's <one of my Son's sayings... lord knows what it means, but it sure sounds funny> MySpace page - they text from their phones AS THEY Play games. So, Microsoft, get off of your duffs, fire up some decent rigs and fix this. When you're done with that, explain to us what you're going to do to fix WMC in Fiji - namely, CableCard Support NOW for HD content and you'd better make it so small OEM's like mine can play, or I'm driving up there and going to demand to know why not.. and then explain why the Xbox Live Market Place can't be accessed from WMC and then tell us why we can't RIP our DVD's/HD-DVD's etc.. to our WMC systems like you said we'd be able to do in Vista - you said you had that one worked out with the content owners - what gives? And for God's sake, hire some top guys that LOVE PC's and the people that use them - we've seen enough of the lock-step accountants as engineers and marketing people that have never wired a RIG. |
| #3 By 415 (69.245.184.81) at 4/11/2007 4:08:19 PM |
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You da man, lketchum. Amen brother!
I just hope someone from Microsoft actually reads this... |
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