Microsoft: Xbox "Growing Out" of Game-Centric Box
Forget what you've heard - Xbox 720 will be cloudy and will grow out of games
Microsoft's Xbox team is getting another face new to it - Dave Cutler, aka "the father of Windows NT" is joining what is looking more and more like the Xbox 720 team. But let's move past Dave's almighty NT past...
Much has been made of his work on developing the Windows system that has evolved into the Vista that we all know and learn to work with. And so it should be. However, Cutler's recent work has been with the Azure cloud storage and computing systems that Microsoft has been pushing out.
And how he's moving over to work with the Xbox team. Why? According to a Microsoft spokesdroid quoted in Zdnet:
"Dave is one of our brightest minds and is currently working on projects that will help advance our goals in the consumer space as we continue to grow the Xbox from a game-centric console to a complete home entertainment device.”
So, if you thought the Metro Dashboard reduced gaming to some kind of ugly kid cousin to Movies, TV, Music and Adverts, Adverts and more Adverts... just wait and see how the Xbox 'grows' out of gaming.
Much has been made of his work on developing the Windows system that has evolved into the Vista that we all know and learn to work with. And so it should be. However, Cutler's recent work has been with the Azure cloud storage and computing systems that Microsoft has been pushing out.
And how he's moving over to work with the Xbox team. Why? According to a Microsoft spokesdroid quoted in Zdnet:
"Dave is one of our brightest minds and is currently working on projects that will help advance our goals in the consumer space as we continue to grow the Xbox from a game-centric console to a complete home entertainment device.”
So, if you thought the Metro Dashboard reduced gaming to some kind of ugly kid cousin to Movies, TV, Music and Adverts, Adverts and more Adverts... just wait and see how the Xbox 'grows' out of gaming.
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