When gamers open up their new Xbox One game console on November 22, they’ll discover a new “app channel” treatment that places their photos and videos alongside traditional channels like ABC and Fox.
Microsoft disclosed some of its plans last Friday, when it provided a partial list of the entertainment apps that will appear on its game console over the coming months. On Monday, however, the company delved further into how that experience will work.
Microsoft’s made it pretty clear that the Xbox One will blur the lines between a traditional set-top box and game console when it goes on sale later this month. In addition to PC-like apps like Skype and Internet Explorer, the One will include the OneGuide, which looks like a traditional grid of channels and TV shows. But a separate layer will add “app channels,” which will place highlighted content into a similar, traditional grid, and add Xbox “achievements,” such as those provide by Amazon, above.
Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud storage service has been part and parcel of Microsoft’s online services since 2007. Users can upload up to 7GB of photos, video, and other files into the online repository, and can set their WIndows Phones, for example, to automatically upload photos into a “Camera Roll” folder.
Via: PCWorld
