Of Course Microsoft’s Putting Xbox LIVE in Windows 8

Microsoft's looking to bestow Xbox LIVE to Windows 8. I cognize, try out not to fall out of your any you'Re sitting in and writhe on the floor in blow out of the water. In fact, Microsoft already told the States this was happening a fewer months past.

So Windows 8, meet Xbox LIVE, and why are we talk astir it now, exactly? Trine reasons: We just had our first serious look at Windows 8, Microsoft's Larry "Major Horatio Nelson" Hryb says he can confirm the marriage is happening, and…we have our forward official screenshot (that's it up top).

Here's what Hryb wrote on Tuesday:

We are confirming that we leave be bringing Xbox LIVE to the PC with Xbox Survive Windows. We are very excited about Xbox LIVE coming to Windows 8. Xbox LIVE brings your games, medicine, movies, and Boob tube shows to your dearie Microsoft and Windows devices. Bringing Xbox LIVE to Windows 8 is part of our imagination to bring you all the amusement you need, shared with the people you guardianship about, ready-made easy. At BUILD we are showing that it is easy for developers to create games for Windows 8 that trespass of the power of Xbox LIVE. We experience much more detail to share about the capabilities of Xbox Go on Windows and look forward to the opportunity to do thusly in the just about early.

So not much, in other words, just the usual stuff cut off-and-paste from the PR lexicon, e.g. "very excited," "favorite," "all…you want," "successful easy," "index of," "look progressive to," and indeed forth.

Let's assume Windows 8 arrives in 2020, as was at one point claimed (then after denied) by Microsoft Chief executive officer Steve Ballmer. The Xbox 360 arrived in late 2005. It'll be seven years echt around this time next year. Even Sony's defatigable (for basically a decade) PlayStation 2 was just six when the PS3 debuted in 2006.

With the Wii U on the table, I'd wager we'll finally ensure Microsoft's Xbox Next at E3 2020. Xbox LIVE for Windows 8 could, in Hryb's "near future," thus provide clues astir what's future day, and who knows, perhaps it'll even go as a "bridge" between the 360's sunset and whatever's around the recess.

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