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Microsoft quietly told Apple it was willing to turn big Xbox-exclusive games into iPhone apps

The Verge

Private emails show Microsoft wheeling and dealing to get into the App Store Remember when Apple pretended like it would let cloud gaming services like Microsoft xCloud and Google Stadia into the App Store, while effectively tearing their business models to shreds? Apple trial.

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Apple's App Store payments loss isn't Epic enough

Computerworld Vertical IT

The first 185-page Apple-v-Epic judgment didn’t please anybody when it arrived on Friday. Epic is appealing the decision , but it's interesting that while it sued Apple and Google over the 30% fee, it has not started litigation against Nintendo, Microsoft, or Sony — all three of which charge the same fee at their online stores.

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Microsoft will build native Xbox games for the cloud, and the woman behind Portal will lead

The Verge

But Microsoft is about to take up the torch: the company has hired former Google Stadia design director Kim Swift, best known for Valve’s hit game Portal , according to an interview with Polygon. Fundamentally, the games you can play on cloud services like Google Stadia, Amazon Luna, and Microsoft xCloud are not “ cloud-native.”

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Google is bringing Android games to Windows in 2022

The Verge

Google spokesperson Alex Garcia-Kummert tells The Verge that the company has built this app on its own, which means Google hasn’t partnered with Microsoft, BlueStacks, or others here. Microsoft is also bringing Android apps to Windows 11. Google’s announcement comes months after Microsoft started testing Android apps on Windows 11 PCs.

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Google secretly had a giant gaming vision that includes bringing games to Mac

The Verge

But Google had a plan to change those things in October 2020, according to an explicitly confidential 70-page vision document dubbed “Games Futures.”. If Google is actually going in this direction, you can get a glimpse of what to expect in the full 70-page document embedded below. Apple trial right here.

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This could be the next big game for Microsoft’s Xbox platform

GeekWire

Microsoft is banking on it to be the next big “killer app” for the Xbox platform. It’s also in an interesting position where it’s both an important release for Microsoft and a potential participant in a major setback for the company. Expect to hear a lot about the upcoming science-fiction action-RPG Starfield in 2023.

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SharePoint Premium highlights the hard road CIOs face with generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

But slog through Microsoft’s introduction of “the future of AI powered content management and experiences,” and you’ll discover that if Microsoft delivers on its promises, SharePoint Premium isn’t just SharePoint with a handful of nice-to-haves bolted onto its posterior. Microsoft Outlook gives us folder trees one more time.