the Windows 8 dashboard resembles
Windows 8 is being designed for touch screens as well as mouse-and-keyboard interfaces.In confirming the program, Xbox Live director of programming Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb today gave fleeting details about what x-ray crystallography the service will entail. "Xbox Live brings your games, music, movies, & TV shows to your favourite Microsoft & Windows devices," Hryb said. "Bringing Xbox Live to Windows 8 is part of our vision to bring you all the entertainment you need, shared with the people you care about, made simple."
The integration is not entirely flourescent insitu hybridization surprising, given how much the Windows 8 dashboard resembles that of the Xbox's Kinect interface. Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed that the Kinect motion-sensing camera peripheral would be coming to the PC, saying, "We'll support that in a formal way in the right time, & when they have an announcement to make, we'll make it." (The company has since released the Kinect program development kit for PC.)
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