superchunk said:
Xbox is what Windows Media Center tried to do. You do realize the only reason Xbox exists is because Sony stated many times their goal was to make Playstation replace PCs. There is a reason Win8 exists and it is now on Xbox. Its all the same long-term survival goal. MS realizes that PCs in the general sense as devices in the "home office" is going away. If they don't cement themselves as full entertianment machines now, then they will lose the entire home market to Apple and Google. Just as MS is nothing in phone/tablet market. What that means is to strengthen Xbox and keep it moving forward so it is seen as the logical choice to "upgrade" from a standard pc. Of course most are just moving to laptops/tablets and there MS is already losing or starting to lose. (would go quicker if Android/ChromOS/iOS would hurry up and support Steam) So yes, Xbox is important to Windows and indirectly Office. |
I am very aware that is why they got into the console business.
I realize that they thought it was a huge threat in 1995 when Playstation was breaking new ground. Generations later and billions of dollars spent and seeing the "growth" of the segment I don't think video game console sell well enough to replace the money they make selling windows and office in the PC market(at least not with loss leading tactics). I also don't see consoles fitting well with the most common pc use cases be that getting work done or the more casual use cases(far better on actual pc, tablet or mobile)
With Office on mobiles I don't see the need for them to spend so much money on making devices themselves. Other manufacturers are willing to do it for them. Just continue to make sure their enterprise software excellent and popular so no matter the OS you want to use Office to get the work done. I think MS should look at IBM and others and be a software and services company. I mostly feel this way because so far it seems all of their hardware responses to competitors have been very expensive failures.
