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With the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft unveiled test previews of new music and video apps. It's a sign the company is trying to build viable competitors to iTunes and Amazon while taking advantage of the Xbox 360's massive popularity and attempting to resurrect the moribund Zune service.
Pre-installed in the Consumer Preview, Microsoft wants you to know Music and Video aren't quite ready for daily use. The words 'app preview' figure prominently on the home screens of each, and users have to accept beta program agreements before using each one. But there's enough to show a bit of what Microsoft is trying to do: offer music, video, and games with linkages across gaming consoles, PCs, and, tablets. With Windows 8, Microsoft wants to become a bigger distributor of content and integrate Windows with the Xbox in new ways.
In the Windows 8 Video app, selecting a movie brings you options to buy, rent, or 'Play on Xbox.' Clicking the Xbox option brings you to the Xbox Companion Beta Program, which can link an Xbox 360 to a PC through Xbox Live accounts. Streaming video from a PC to an Xbox is one use case, Windows executive Kent Walter writes in a blog post today. Videos purchased on the Windows Video store can be downloaded to the PC or streamed from the Web.
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The Xbox Companion Beta also features in the Xbox Live Games app, another pre-installed portion of Windows 8, which provides game downloads for computers and the ability to purchase PC and Xbox console games. This builds on an Xbox Companion app for Windows Phones, which promises to 'search for your favorite movies, TV shows, music, and games, and play them on your Xbox from your phone.'
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The video app is still a bit rough; exactly how the Windows 8/Xbox 360 integration will work in practice remains to be seen. 'Xbox Live in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview includes games, video, music and Xbox companion applications,' Xbox Live executive Larry Hryb wrote in a blog post today. 'In the preview, these apps are just a taste of the features that we’ll be delivering at launch.' The blog post did not specify what other features will be available at launch.
In the Music app, Microsoft relies on the Zune software service to sell songs, despite the Zune hardware product line discontinuing last year after a long struggle. You can buy songs from a small sampling of artists such as the Cranberries or Jason Mraz, and there are 30-second song samples to play for free.
The Music application force quit a couple times while I was trying to play samples, but this can probably be attributed to a combination of running Windows 8 in a virtual machine and the 'preview' nature of the software.
While the apps are in an early state, the hints of broad integration between Microsoft's software for tablets, PCs, and the Xbox 360 are compelling. To stay up to date, you can read Ars and check out Microsoft's Building Windows 8 blog, which offers a wealth of details about new features and insight into the software development process.
13 July 2017
I like the app, cant think of any changes to make, love i can upload a profile pic i make using it.
13 July 2017
Love the ability to choose a pic of my own!
13 July 2017
ew
12 July 2017
Been waiting over a month for my gamer pic request to be 'deemed acceptable'. Just trying to be patriotic and use the good ol' Stars & Stripes as my profile pic. What's going on, why such a delay?? I could totally understand if the image was copyrighted, racist, sexist or any of those other popular buzz words, but its NOT!! It's the American Flag for Pete's sake. What, is there a concern that someone is going to be triggered by the American Flag?!? Well, if that's the case, I'm triggered by some of these mongoloids missing a chromosome or two, who's gene pool could use some chlorine, posting their selfie. Some people's appearance should remain anonymous. I'll give it a little longer. If it doesn't change, I'll edit this to one star and uninstall. If it miraculously changes, I'll edit to five stars for sure.
12 July 2017
party connections..
12 July 2017
Works fine on my laptop, but on my desktop it refuses to log me in. I get the error message 'Sorry, we can't log you in right now. Clean my mac x activation key. (0x409) 0x80080300' Am I doing something wrong? The only reason I downloaded this was because the same thing happened with the other app.
12 July 2017
Overall good app but oneguide is so laggy that it is nearly unusable on Lumia 950. Unable to enlarge screenshots and the resolution on the screenshots is very low. OneGuide has also been removed. This was a great feature..
12 July 2017
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12 July 2017
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12 July 2017
I downloaded the Xbox beta app to create a custom gamerpic for my gamertag. The new app easily allows that to happen and I was surprised at the ease. Unfortunately, this app is near useless since the friends list has not once displayed the friends list and consistently says 'We can't show your friends right now. Try refreshing the app.' on every start up. This negates the purpose of the app, which is to allow seamless interaction between windows 10 and Xbox One features, and requires me to use the Xbox smartglass app on my phone (which is painfully slow) to see who is online and who isn't. It is aggravating to experience the same issues with the base Xbox app on the new Xbox app. When I am in a party with my friends the app works very well and never crashes. The store could use some streamlining in my opinion and isn't as good as the Xbox One store on console. My rating will remain low unless the friends list is fixed which I doubt will ever happen.
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