These features will all be dealt with as per how amazing the M$ lawyers are, M$ will apply mission creep and by mid next gen cycle drm will have crept back in. Do not fall for it.
They won't do that because they don't want to deal with the massive backlash that would follow. It's the same reason publishers don't use their own form of DRM on consoles, even though they have the ability to do it right now.