The Xbox One will reportedly soon support Alexa and Google Assistant

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KBG29 said:

It's not Xbox taking over PC, it is just Microsoft using the Xbox Branding for their 1st party PC hardware. Microsoft having its own in house PC, does nothing to stop people from building a custom PC, or buying from any number of companies that make pre-built PCs, just like Microsoft having Surface Tablets, and Laptops doesn't stop other manufactures from making and selling products in that category.

I don't believe Microsoft would call it a PC, because the goal would be to sneak it into peoples homes as a console. If they try to maket it as a PC for the TV, I believe it would scare people off, just like it always has in the past. I already have what I want, with XOX as it is. I can use more and more Windows apps every week thanks to Universal Windows Apps, and each update continues to make it operate more and more like full Windows, of course in a closed garden fashion at the moment.

And since when is a PC defined so narrowly? PC's come in every form factor imaginable. Tall Towers, Mini Towers, All In Ones, Laptops, Tablets, Phones, the list goes on and on. Why would an Xbox with full blown windows not be a PC?

Xbox was never going to take over PC though, so yes, it isn't about Xbox supposedly taking over PC. What it's about is trying to assume MS is making Xbox "the PC", when it cannot, because we already have it, it's called the "Personal Computer".

Xbox on Windows OS is more a brand service, than it is the the console side (which it is presented as a console with it's own specified OS).

As far as things go for MS, the Xbox is not their "in-house PC". It is their in-house console though. 

 

MS never really intended their line to be PC's snuck into living rooms. Not when their starting off point was more in line with what Sony was doing at the time. Just because it "scared" some people off in the past, doesn't mean it will till the end of time itself. It's how you actually market it that counts, just like how MS presenting X1 during that e3 event, counted a metric ton.

I don't really see it becoming exactly like win 10 at the end of it's cycle, let alone the next OS installment. It's closed, just like it will be for years to come, but that's not really an objectively good thing for everyone (since not everyone wants it to be a closed and walled garden).

I was never talking about it's form factor, so I'm not sure why you're bringing that up. 

I know you're trying to muddy the lines up, but that's not really why we're talking (and it shouldn't be either).