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01/06/2009

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Today Microsoft held their Press Conference at E3 where they announced the following:

Integration of services:

Facebook, basically a facebook app like those on Windows Mobile and the iPhone for the XBox but for your TV
Twitter, an easy way to tweet and read others tweets when using your XBox
Last.FM, listen to the many radio stations from Last.FM
Zune Video Store to replace Videos tab
Further integration of Netflix allowing instant viewing of films in HD

New Technologies:

Project Natal was finally announced showing how you can control the XBox with no controllers by using you whole body and voice, something that might be worrying to Nintendo. This was demonstrated in several ways showing how games could work, painting and human interaction with a scarily realistic digital character

Other News:

Out of the 10 game premieres 6 of them were exclusive to the XBox including a rumoured Halo title, Halo Reach
Metal Gear Solid will no longer be only for Sony as a new game in the series will be coming out for the XBox

What I would have liked to see:

Further integration between Zunes, mainly the Zune HD, and the XBox. Maybe having the Zune HD as the XBox Portable, however I guess Microsoft needs stuff to announce over the summer ;)

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Fabrício D'Morison S. Marinho

"icons showing the synch status of files would be nice too, just like SVN, Drop Box, G Drive do :)"

On "What’s Next for SkyDrive"

João Morgado

"I have annother tip. You could have all your documents folder synced to skydrive if you right click the my documents folder and change the location of my documents to a folder within skydrive. That way when you change something in my documents folders it is also updated to skydrive. You can do this to sync between computers if you don't exceed the skydrive limit."

On "Tips for using the new Windows SkyDrive app"

Markus Strobl

"Whta's about hardlinks (fsutil....) - so you can have yor original useful file structure and those folders, which should be synced, as hardlinks in the skydrive-structure? However, Live Mesh rules and I am also sad, that this good important difference to dropbox & Co - I can select, which folders of my structure should be synced - is now missing. "

Abraham Vivas

"I think Microsoft is reinventing itself in a good way. Deep SkyDrive and Office integration while keeping everything in sync (tablets, desktop, laptop, phone) is a great value that I think should and will attract some people as well as part of the Enterprise sector"

On "Murtazin shares non-specific Windows 8 information"

Sander Voeten

"Wouldn't it be nice for the Windows Phone 7 app to have a back-up functionality? That you can back-up all (or a section of) your pictures, documents on your phone instead of the one-by-one approach."

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