Xbox One to play Windows apps out of the box? According to Dell.com, yes!

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What does this exactly mean? Will MS have a suite of Windows apps that will be cross compatible or will they be the same apps? When were they going to let this cat out of the bag? They talked about it briefly but this is pretty big. How come Dell is the only one talking about this? An error on their part or letting the cat out of the bag early?

Windows 8
Consider the game officially changed. With all
your favorite Windows 8 apps able to be run on
and synced to your Xbox One, now your phone,
desktop, tablet and TV can all give you a unified
web and entertainment experience.

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There was no reason not to do this. When X1 already uses x86 processor, developing apps like Xbox Music and Skype yet again for X1 sounds ridiculous. Windows 8 already has a series of apps available, and some can be used directly on X1.
 
I wouldn't object. They would need to be optimized and reconfigured for the xbone or they'd look silly, ie phone apps on tablets that take up small amounts of the screen.
 
I guess? Especially since that game supports controllers. Frankly, if this is true, I'd be more interested in the opposite situation. Developers will flock to Xbox One which has quite a user base, and then it will expand onto Windows 8/RT.
 
In order to do this, the app would have to be developed using the portable class libraries. 100% of the time...which, cant be done since they differ in so many in terms of UI and how threading is handled. I think i read the other day that MS hopes to achieve 77% parity by 2015.
 
well, windows 8 apps aren't compatible with windows phone 8. the stores are drastically different so if anything I could see xbo being tied in with the windows store which would be a much needed boost for the store as well as both platforms.
 
Yeah this was BS at face value even without a comment from MS.

Huge percentage of apps on Windows 8 don't support controllers for instance.. lots of them almost require touch.

MS is making it easy to port software, it's all WinRT with slight modifications, but they'll be vetting and filtering Xbox One apps a bit more than Windows 8 most likely and of course requiring Kinect and/or XBO controller support.. as opposed to Windows 8 which requires both touch and KB/mouse support.

I think eventually MS will allow Windows 8 ported apps full access to the GPU/RAM as well.. apps that would need to be specially marked as not compatible with SNAP. Otherwise that's also an issue for the games in the app store, as they may not run well with the limited GPU/CPU/RAM earmarked for the RT side of XBO.
 
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