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Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One

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Re: Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One

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Post by kalininalex »

jamesaguilar wrote: post #78
Erwin wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What has Microsoft done to compete with the Sony rootkit? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...

There was this antitrust case where Microsoft tried to illegally take ownership of the entire desktop computing ecosystem. It would have probably done more harm than any one rootkit. You may have heard of it. Also, Sony-BMG is not the same company as Sony Computer Entertainment, and indeed no longer exists.

I guess the question requires further qualification, "What has Microsoft done, in the last 12 years, to compete with the Sony rootkit?"

Re: Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One

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Post by teamonkey »

habitue wrote: post #33
programminggeek wrote: post #25

The reason Microsoft is doing this is not what you think it is. The Xbox is a subscription business. $50/year * 46 million subscribers. Microsoft can't afford to lose those subscribers. The box, the DRM, media integration, etc. means nothing if they lose those subscribers to the Wii U or PS4. So, don't piss off your core customers. Anecdotally, a lot of my friends and family who are longtime Xbox gamers have no inten…

> The reason Microsoft is doing this is not what you think it is. I assumed they were succumbing to pressure from their customer base... what was I supposed to think the reason was?

The people complaining are only a fraction of their total customer base.

Re: Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One

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Post by wolfgke »

CJefferson wrote: post #80
ebbv wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sony has certainly done some heinous things in the past, but so has Microsoft. So, pick your poison.

Has Microsoft ever done anything like the removal of Linux from the PS3? That is what will stop me personally from buying another Sony console.

Has Microsoft ever given the possibility to install Linux on the XBox 360?

Re: Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One

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Post by mynameisvlad »

imilligan wrote: post #48

I'm a bit disappointed at this change - on one hand, it's nice to know that I can share my disc games if I want to. On the other hand though, this effectively means they're killing off their disk-less approach to owning/installing games. This means that instead of having all my games tied to my account on any device I own, I have to lug my games around with my everywhere I go. This also means picking my vegetative se…

Sucks to be you. That's what happens when people shortsightedly complain about things over and over again. It just goes back to the status quo.

Without the 24 hour check, there's no way to guarantee that the games tied to disks are still owned by you and you didn't just give them to someone.

Re: Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One

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Post by mercuryrising »

CJefferson wrote: post #80
ebbv wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sony has certainly done some heinous things in the past, but so has Microsoft. So, pick your poison.

Has Microsoft ever done anything like the removal of Linux from the PS3? That is what will stop me personally from buying another Sony console.

Not entirely on the same page, but the RRoD bricked two of my 360s. One was in warranty, they sent me a new one. It RRoRed a little while later, but I was out of warranty now, so no replacement for me. I bought a new one, then that one RRoRed after about 3.5 years. I'll never purchase another Microsoft product just because I don't have faith in their ability to create a hardware product after that debacle. Such a waste.

My NES, Playstation, PS2, N64, etc. all still work. 360s die within three years of purchase.

Re: Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One

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Post by taopao »

mikelat wrote: post #85
alyx wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stop spreading privacy FUD. Kinect can be controlled and disabled. http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/privacy

This page says it's disabled by software - not by hardware. So it really depends on how much you trust the software and the people making it. The software is closed source and the people making it also happened to be the first ones to sign onto PRISM.

Your computer and phone are big balls of blind faith in software/firmware.

Re: Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One

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Post by ralfd »

CJefferson wrote: post #80
ebbv wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sony has certainly done some heinous things in the past, but so has Microsoft. So, pick your poison.

Has Microsoft ever done anything like the removal of Linux from the PS3? That is what will stop me personally from buying another Sony console.

With that logic Sony never should have allowed (like the Xbox) a second OS on the PS3, so people wouldn't bitch about the removal.

Re: Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One

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Post by katbyte »

taopao wrote: post #96
mikelat wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This page says it's disabled by software - not by hardware. So it really depends on how much you trust the software and the people making it. The software is closed source and the people making it also happened to be the first ones to sign onto PRISM.

Your computer and phone are big balls of blind faith in software/firmware.

My computer doesn't have a webcam or mic plugged in all the time pointed at my living room.

Re: Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One

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Post by baddox »

mikelat wrote: post #85
alyx wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stop spreading privacy FUD. Kinect can be controlled and disabled. http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/privacy

This page says it's disabled by software - not by hardware. So it really depends on how much you trust the software and the people making it. The software is closed source and the people making it also happened to be the first ones to sign onto PRISM.

Well everything is about trust, right? The PS4 could have a completely hidden camera that always on, but most people trust that Sony wouldn't do that, or that if they did, someone would quickly find it.

Re: Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One

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Post by shock-value »

teamonkey wrote: post #92
habitue wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The reason Microsoft is doing this is not what you think it is. I assumed they were succumbing to pressure from their customer base... what was I supposed to think the reason was?

The people complaining are only a fraction of their total customer base.

Pressure doesn't just mean vocal pressure. By now I assume they have preorder data from Amazon, etc. (For Amazon, the PS4 has been a top seller in the videogame category for most of the past week despite being split up into multiple bundles.)
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