Microsoft faced some very negative feedback when it announced that its new console, the Xbox One, would require an internet connection and be released with restrictions on used games. Kotaku wrote this about Microsoft's announcements of its polices: "The news was almost all bad." So, the company's just announced a new policy: "Haha, just kidding, you guys! We take back all that stuff you hated."
Microsoft's unveiling of the Xbox One back in May was decidedly about the hardware. Almost right away today at E3, Microsoft announced its conference would be "all about the games." Sure, there were a lot of games, but that didn't turn out to be completely true: there were plenty of announcements about the console itself, too. Here's what we learned.
Today at E3, the massive electronics expo that yesterday played host to Nintendo's announcement about the updated Wii U, Microsoft broke out an announcement that's really more about media - especially video - than games. Microsoft Smart Glass is a way to join all of your devices together: smartphone, tablet, and TV, all sharing media.
If for whatever reason you've had enough of your Xbox 360, and decide you just need to move on (perhaps to a PS3?), then one enterprising chap has gone and given you yet another possible use for your former console of choice, by turning his own defunct device into a reef aquarium.