I took that as more of a "the APIs and runtime are similar" than meaning the store actually be available.
Kinect would be a suitable replacement for touch tho I guess, so the UI should be ok
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All W8 apps running on Xbox One says Dell
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I took that as more of a "the APIs and runtime are similar" than meaning the store actually be available.
Kinect would be a suitable replacement for touch tho I guess, so the UI should be ok
Haha, beaten. That was the first thing I thought too.
But seriously, I suppose this is a good thing, but how many people will hook up a keyboard and mouse to use the most useful apps there? And isn't that contrary to MS push to mobile and tablets?
Windows Store apps are supposed to be touch compatible, so you wouldn't need a mouse/keyboard.
This would have been great news for me if the Xbone came out a year ago. I would have snatched up two of them since I would have a gaming machine as well as a pretty powerful HTPC using the Plex app. Too bad I've already built two gaming HTPCs that are synced through a MySQL database with XBMC.
Who is going to type a word document without a keyboard? 10 words per minute?
soulassssns
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That's what I was thinking as well
Garrett 2U
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They are targeting Xbone at business owners.
Being able display presentations, documents, and spreadsheets would be big for those folks.
Steverulez
Member
Or you could plug in a keyboard, you could do that to type even on 360.
More freedom? Having your Facebook, PowerPoint or SkyDrive apps available on the big screen would be nice.
The biggest difference would be for devs, though. Developing only one app with some adjustments across three screens would help the ecosystem of Windows 8, Windows Phone and Xbone immensely.
Won't make too much of a difference when the Windows userbase dwarfs the Xbone userbase.
Pretty sure it would be RT. Would make little sense to use the Xbone as a full PC with all the problems that come with it, like controls, stability, viruses etc.
The RT apps could probably work relatively well if you control them via Smartglass.
Windows Phone has a far superior app selection compared to Windows 8.
mitchman
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Only App Store apps. Chrome is not in that category and the only reason it can run in metro is that MS specifically allows desktop browsers to run on metro due to anti-trust issues.
bleachrude
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I wonder...
How accurate is the kinect hand motion sensor...Say you have a hand/pointer on the screen..can you move your hand and will it track your hand that you could use just it as a pointer?
Your Xbox 1 is now a powerpoint presentation machine.
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Read what I quoted.
Windows Store apps are supposed to be touch compatible, so you wouldn't need a mouse/keyboard.
Garrett 2U
Member
I think this would be a pretty big deal.
Iacobellis
Junior Member
It is still missing YouTube and Instagram.
Garrett 2U
Member
Interesting...
MaulerX
Member
There are 3'rd party apps that are actually better than the official ones. Just saying.
CassidyIzABeast
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Well the quote on Dell doesn't say the whole store is coming its just that Xbox has the ability to support Windows 8 apps. If the developer thinks people would find use with the app they could easily port it over but I wouldn't expect to see something like Office on Xbox One.
I don't think productivity apps are the intent of a feature like this.
So is Windows 8.
Windows Phone has 6tag, which is superior in both design and functionality compared to the official iOS and Android Instagram apps. It's amazingly well made.
As for Youtube, that's because Google is being a bitch about it. As with most things, there are great 3rd party alternatives out there.
(Neither concerns the Xbone, of course).
But they have dropped numerous hints over the past few months though. They've done everything but confirm it. I tried to find the official video, but this YouTube video from Build 2013 will have to do for now. I doubt you'll have access to the entire Windows 8 store on the XB1; most likely it'll be a seperate store that developers can also target, but the APIs will be very similar, making the process of porting apps across a lot simpler.
Like I said, it's all but confirmed at this point that there's going to be a lot of cross over between the platforms.
GarthVaderUK
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Yup, I use Metrotube and 6tag.
Pumpkincutter
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good joke....NOT. there's a lot more than 5. I can't name 5 good ones though. upgraded to 8 this week. have no clue what I am doing
CassidyIzABeast
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Why would it be RT? RT was developed to run on ARM based processors? It doesn't make sense that they would rewrite the entire RT OS to run on a x86 platform (kind of defeats the purpose of having both an ARM and x86 version) when they already have a x86 Windows 8 that'll run just fine on the Xbox One (since the processor is x86).
Compatibility of Windows 8/Xbox One apps would probably be more of a plus for Windows 8 than Xbox One. Maybe even solving the YouTube issue (since Xbox apps already exist)
I can't run Windows Phone apps on my Windows 8 desktop. As it stands currently, they're not interchangeable and are two independent app stores.
It won't be RT, but it will probably have the limitations of RT. Meaning it'll only run Windows Store apps.
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I love, love, love using SkyDrive on the 360. Using a wide variety of photo, video, music, streaming, presentation, social media etc. apps on a TV seems like a good deal to me.
PopcornMegaphone
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Yeah, MS would have to be on crazy pills to miss an opportunity to beef up all their platform ecosystems like this.
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