{"id":14022,"date":"2011-09-14T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"windows-8-to-include-xbox-live-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/14022-windows-8-to-include-xbox-live-service","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 to include Xbox LIVE service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its ongoing commitment to putting Xbox LIVE on everything, everywhere, Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 will be shipping out with the service built-in.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are very excited about Xbox LIVE coming to Windows 8,&rdquo; writes Xbox LIVE community manager Larry Hryb (aka Major Nelson) over on his <a href=\"http:\/\/majornelson.com\/2011\/09\/13\/xbox-live-and-windows-8\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Major Nelson blog\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Xbox LIVE brings your games, music, movies, and TV shows to your favorite Microsoft and Windows devices. Bringing Xbox LIVE to Windows 8 is part of our vision to bring you all the entertainment you want, shared with the people you care about, made easy,&rdquo; said the Major.<\/p>\n<p>Which says a whole lot, and nothing much at all, although <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/12033-Rumour-Xbox-360-games-playable-Windows.htm\" target=\"_self\" title=\"rumours\">rumours<\/a> have been going about for some time already that Windows 8 machines will be able to play Xbox LIVE game discs.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not exactly clear what this means for Microsoft&rsquo;s Games For Windows LIVE label, although any possibility of it being binned is probably a possibility worth believing in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Xbox_live_on_Windows_8_238868737.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Xbox LIVE running on Windows 8<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17650-Windows-8-to-feature-Xbox-LIVE-service\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Windows 8 to include Xbox LIVE service\"><strong>Windows 8 to include Xbox LIVE service<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next up, next-gen Xbox to include Windows 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}