ZDnet has found this video from Microsoft showing their plans for the Windows Gaming Experience, which is an internal team within Microsoft that works on all Microsoft gaming related projects on all platforms. The video is a little old(May 2010) but it’s pretty clear that Microsoft goals of ubiquitous computing, to connect your PC with your XBOX with your mobile device is a cool but not something of a revolutionary idea. But it’s way harder to implement it(than to theorise it on paper) as even Games For Windows Live was supposed to have offered some multiplatform features which Microsoft quickly discovered were quite incompatible with each other(really, gold tier membership for PC?). But cool idea nevertheless. No idea whether the ideas will get implemented at all or if they moved on. Video below…
BTW just to add to those that might be confused. The term ubiquitous computing refers to the ability(more like promise) that we can have an uninterrupted computing experience any where we go. Mobile, home or at work.
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