Microsoft Xbox 360 now transmits with Twitter and Facebook
Online gaming initiative from Redmond: the sparrows were whistling in the last few days by the (high-) roofs. It’s official: The world’s largest software group, and Xbox gaming console manufacturer Microsoft has bid on the Internet platform for its gaming console Xbox 360 on Tuesday extended with direct access to the booming social networks Facebook and Twitter.
With the new Video Marketplace “Zune” for the first time the company also markets the brand of his so far only available in the U.S. media player outside of the home country.
About the video platform Microsoft Zune Xbox offers users easy access without having to wait for movies in HD quality (streaming). Offer plans that the Zune player itself in Europe, but there are still not. Microsoft had its Zune iPod put 2006 in the U.S. as a challenger to Apple’s at the start, was the successful rival, but to date no wrest significant market share.You could “establish themselves as the number two, but that is not much in the great distance,” said Mark Mulligan, an analyst at Forrester Research, the “Financial Times”. According to data from market researcher NPD Group by the U.S. Microsoft’s Zune was ranked in the first nine months of this year, with two percent market share in fourth place in the U.S. – even behind SanDisk and Sony. Apple dominates the market continues to cope with a market share of 73 percent.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has high hopes on its new “Zune HD,” came in September in the American stores. The fourth generation of the Zune player with integrated radio and a large display has harvested in equipment and functionality in the industry is already a lot of praise.
