GarthVaderUK
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There are emulators on the Windows Phone store, haven't checked the Windows 8 store.
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All W8 apps running on Xbox One says Dell
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There are emulators on the Windows Phone store, haven't checked the Windows 8 store.
MaulerX
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FranXico
Member
Well, that's disappointing if you want your apps to run on the bone.
BTW, Windows 8 apps also almost run on Windows 8.1. I found that while 8.1 is backwards compatible, your XAML formatting will easily break (snap changed more than people realize). And it actually is quite a bit of work to port an app if you do low level enough stuff in C++. I just found out first hand.
Warm Machine
Member
It was rumored for the last 9 months.
Good old Microsoft.
Always dump old implementation.
"No no no. That's not how you do it any more."
Force everyone on new one.
"This is how you do it now."
*some time passes*
Same thing happens again.
No standards.
Thanks to Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, some sense knocked back in Microsoft, and now we have IE11.
Yeah, sounds like it won't just port over automagically. But it does sound like it's not hard so yay for more apps! I hope they have a plan for rising the better apps to the top.
Sword Of Doom
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I'll take more power for gaming over all this fancy stuff, although i'm sure its attractive for some
Diablohead
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If all windows 8 apps work on the XBO then I am extremely impressed and happy for the long term, actually makes me really interested in owning an xbox one earlier then I planned, too.
*edit* hopefully the transfer to run on an xbox is simple.
*edit* hopefully the transfer to run on an xbox is simple.
Man, if this...Imagine, IF... PCSX2? Dolphin? Ok, there are still a few things to these emulators, of course. I don't know how 3d will translate over all platforms...
1) I pull up bombcast episodes when I'm cooking though admittedly I have my PC hooked to my TV so I would probably still use giantbomb.com
2) I believe MS said that any app could be snapped though I have the same questions that you do.
I think it's awesome but I also buy all consoles so I don't mind a power tradeoff for features. I'm upgrading my PC in 2014 so the ultimate power of these consoles is lol.
No, a very similar kernel and most probably a similar abstraction layer for apps.
On WinRT? News to me.
Well of course. I didn't expect 100% of the code to be re-usable, but if it's something like 90% then it's not much of a problem.
Windows Phone Store is around 200K apps.
No, you'd start up the Xbox and a TV to play a game. The podcast app would be nice if you want to listen to a podcast while playing said game, especially if you use a headset.
Garrett 2U
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Snap works for any app that's designed for it...
So far we've heard of TV, Skype, Fantasy Football, Machinima, Netflix, Internet Explorer and more...
The unification of their platforms is a pretty awesome feature. Although I do find it quite funny how everyone blasts MS for Windows 8/Windows Phone/Surface tablets for being horrible, yet now this is amazing.
This just may be common sense talking but I don't think those are the same people.
Astral/H3X
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This is huge. Not because the W8 ecosystem is huge, but because now it should become huge. This means developing any W8 app now becomes developing an Xbone app too. Granted, apparently there is a tiny bit of porting to be done, but alas, that's to be expected.
Interested in how this plays out.
Interested in how this plays out.
Yes, Video podcast.
CassidyIzABeast
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Its pretty much expected out of any platform spanning multiple devices in 2013.
You're not going to see the entire app on Xbox though. The thread title is misleading on that front. Xbox is able to run W8 apps. Any W8 app dev who wants to port their app to W8 shouldn't have any trouble doing so is the main takeaway.
MaulerX
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They have been drip feeding us info for the last few months. Always managing to keep the XB1 in headlines weather for good or bad. I would imagine this is another ace up their sleeve and will announce at the right time or when things are a bit more fleshed out. Besides, they themselves have hinted on this.
DonfatherBrooks
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VLC Player?
It's true, but just not in the way Dell make it seem. Potentially all Windows 8 apps will run on the XB1, but they need to be slightly re-developed first. Xbox One apps will use very similar APIs to the Windows 8 apps which should enable easy porting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ErL_gEVaI
I don't actually expect them to announce this or discuss anything about it until next year's Build conference however.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-new-windows-8-user-experience-metro?ref=live
It's coming to WinRT. Slowly. They should have a beta version available to backers soon. So theoretically they should be able to easily port this over to the XB1.
as a current W8 user, these are the apps i have in my live tiles that i use from time to time
Mail- have multiple emails linked to this app
finance - look at DOW J whenever im curious
Weather
yahoo news - displays trending news right in that tile
msn news 0 same thing but has pictures with it
another thing that will be awesomatic if we can use it = task manager - ability to see all current running apps and close them from there, also the ability to see real time cpu usage, ram usage, hdd activity, network activity (amazing if we can snap this program to the side while playing a game to see its usage)
Mail- have multiple emails linked to this app
finance - look at DOW J whenever im curious
Weather
yahoo news - displays trending news right in that tile
msn news 0 same thing but has pictures with it
another thing that will be awesomatic if we can use it = task manager - ability to see all current running apps and close them from there, also the ability to see real time cpu usage, ram usage, hdd activity, network activity (amazing if we can snap this program to the side while playing a game to see its usage)
GrizzleBoy
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For people making a big deal out of Windows 8 apps "almost" being a straight port, I'm quite sure that Windows RT is a samilar situation (given that the apps also have to be able to run on an ARM architecture), yet that's not stopped me from downloading every Windows store app from my pc on my RT tablet and vice versa.
Its also kind of surprising/annoying that its taken this long for people to realise that this was a direction/possibility for XB1.
Between:
-MS publicly making it know that integrating all their platforms is key for their future strategy
-Steve Ballmer telling devs at Build 2013 that if they want to get a headstart on getting their apps on XB1, they should start with Windows 8.
-XB1 running an x86 customised version of Windows.
All the writing was on the wall.
However, this news was revealed around the time when all the internet was interested in doing was warring about DRM policies. You could have announced Armageddon during that time and it would have passed people by.
If they can get the apps that I use on my PC (Appy Geek/Appy Gamer/Remote Desktop/ for accessing my media server) on my XB1, that will be veery happy days for me.
Its also kind of surprising/annoying that its taken this long for people to realise that this was a direction/possibility for XB1.
Between:
-MS publicly making it know that integrating all their platforms is key for their future strategy
-Steve Ballmer telling devs at Build 2013 that if they want to get a headstart on getting their apps on XB1, they should start with Windows 8.
-XB1 running an x86 customised version of Windows.
All the writing was on the wall.
However, this news was revealed around the time when all the internet was interested in doing was warring about DRM policies. You could have announced Armageddon during that time and it would have passed people by.
If they can get the apps that I use on my PC (Appy Geek/Appy Gamer/Remote Desktop/ for accessing my media server) on my XB1, that will be veery happy days for me.
You can already do that on other devices.
This is an insanely ignorant post.
The benefit of this is that XBLA or Indie Games can be made available for anything with Modern UI and Xbox One together. There is a chance that emulators may work also, but that's something that mot everyone would agree is a good thing.
Modern UI would be able to carry over applications like Spartan Assault and have us share our files on the Xbox One itself and on the move.
Those of us that have a laptop and hook it up to the television would understand this benefit. Apart from games, which is exactly that the Xbox One will be good at, it will be able to do all the other stuff we usually do.
Iacobellis
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But it isn't.
Vanguardofyourdestruction
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Niiice. The more days go by, the more I'm interested in the Xbone.
NemesisPrime
Banned
Vlc is almost done.
Its a megaton if I can play mkv on this.
If you're going to type some sort of paper then you probably shouldn't be using the Xbone for that anyway..
NullPointer
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I always assumed this was the case.
But what's the killer app or use case here? I havent seen it.
But what's the killer app or use case here? I havent seen it.
Good is subjective. Over 100,000 apps and Metro works on any screen size. All they need to do is add controller support to the apps.
There's a lot of benefits to have an "open" app marked like this on consoles. Imagine having Facebook chat snapped or sports result, Spotify, stock ticker, porn, etc.
And seeing games jump between Windows 8/RT and Xbox would also be great, play a bit of Halo on the console and continue on the go.
And seeing games jump between Windows 8/RT and Xbox would also be great, play a bit of Halo on the console and continue on the go.
This. 8.1 let's you completely cut metro out entirely thankfully. Metro is such garbage.
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