Over at the Consumer Electronics show, happening in Las Vegas as we speak, Microsoft has unveiled plans to release a portable media player for its Xbox machine.
According to early reports this morning, the system will be called Media2go and will see ‘pay-per use’ music and film streamed over Xbox Live, and downloaded to a portable device of some kind.
Furthermore, the Xbox and PC will be linked together, though the details of this have not yet emerged.
This is now the absolute end to Microsoft’s insistence that the Xbox would be a games machine, not a broadband-enabled media-purchasing unit. It was always obvious, but to see the firm so blasé about its previous deception is quite startling.
Is everybody resolved to the idea of Microsoft having an interest in every aspect of our lives. Will someone stop this runaway steamroller of a company?
Stay tuned for updates on this breaking story.
According to early reports this morning, the system will be called Media2go and will see ‘pay-per use’ music and film streamed over Xbox Live, and downloaded to a portable device of some kind.
Furthermore, the Xbox and PC will be linked together, though the details of this have not yet emerged.
This is now the absolute end to Microsoft’s insistence that the Xbox would be a games machine, not a broadband-enabled media-purchasing unit. It was always obvious, but to see the firm so blasé about its previous deception is quite startling.
Is everybody resolved to the idea of Microsoft having an interest in every aspect of our lives. Will someone stop this runaway steamroller of a company?
Stay tuned for updates on this breaking story.
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