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Microsoft to bring full Internet Explorer browsing to Xbox 360 with Kinect controls

Microsoft is currently testing a modified version of Internet Explorer 9 on its Xbox 360 console, according to our sources. The Xbox 360 currently includes Bing voice search, but it's limited to media results. Microsoft's new Internet Explorer browser for Xbox will expand on this functionality to open up a full browser for the console. We are told that the browser will let Xbox users surf all parts of the web straight from their living rooms.

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Chaostar4799d ago

Virus in 3..2..1...

All jokes aside, it's about time 360 owners got a web browser.

LOGICWINS4799d ago

Agreed. Everyone has the right to free porn on their gaming console!

Fez4799d ago

Probably requires a gold account :P

Godmars2904799d ago (Edited 4799d ago )

$2 says they block video streaming options.

@Captain Qwark 9:
Seek help.

Captain Qwark 94799d ago

agree 100x. my ps3 is a porn machine 1st, game machine second

darthv724799d ago

it will likely be much better than their first foray into web-tv. It is a solid chance it wont support "flash" as they would more than likely be using silverlight as the streaming engine.

Either that or HTML5 support.

F7U124799d ago

and this is how IE recovers some of the share that's it lost in recent years.

ShinobiDragon4798d ago (Edited 4798d ago )

LOL...Does anyone on here have a women? Just remember kids your hand is no substitute for the real thing. Doesn't matter if shes fat,skinny,ugly or hot they all have them universal feel good parts.

da_2pacalypse4798d ago

Why must it be kinect -_- What's wrong with just using a regular controller -_-

rdgneoz34798d ago

@ShinobiDragon Fat chicks need love too... But they gotta pay!

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Perjoss4799d ago

Not really, who seriously uses a games console to surf the web? these days everyone and their dog has a computer or laptop / ipad / iphone etc etc. Browsing the web with a controller, no thank you.

cee7734799d ago

i do from time to time on my ps3 to watch missed episodes of tv shows who need hulu i refuse to pay for commercials

TekoIie4799d ago

I used to with Megavideo. My tv is 5 times bigger than my laptop so when i can watch a video its better to watch it on that (if the qualities good of course).

Freshnikes4799d ago

Fap with one hand and hold the iPad with the other.... You man are a Acrobatic wanker!!!

HappyGaming4798d ago

Most laptops have HDMI outputs anyway :/ I use that instead of my PS3 cause an i5 and 4GB of DDR3 RAM is much better for browsing.

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dark-hollow4799d ago (Edited 4799d ago )

Why a news about adding more functionality to the 360 is welcomed with so much negativity here?

TekoIie4799d ago

The PS3's web browser was one of the main features which set it apart from the 360. PS3 fanboy's (stealthily) arent happy about that just like 360 fanboy's would do if the PS3 got Cross game chat.

Simple fanboy grudge. Nothing to be surprised of here ;)

kreate4799d ago (Edited 4799d ago )

Its the same ppl complaining about the ps3's web browser.

Web browser is all fine and dandy.. But can i download videos into my xbox hdd from the web?

Virtual_Reality4799d ago

Wii and PS3 had Web Browser since the beginning, not only PS3.

trenso14799d ago

@Virtual_Reality actually on the wii it was an app for the internet which was free. Then costed something like 200 wii points and now I'm pretty sure its free again. All I know is the launch wii didnt have it straight out the box

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SPAM-FRITTER-1234799d ago

@chaostarnot. not enough memory in 3..2..1...

all jokes aside,lets hope its not a broken mess like the playstation browser.

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SPAM-FRITTER-1234799d ago

you don't know what your on about silly boy.

i meant the error message that comes up on screen when surfing the psbrowser you dumb tit.

back it up.

flash player doesn't work and when it updates it seems to be worse.

it crashes all the time

will only let you download from certain sites.

youtube is not worth mentioning.

the list could go on but i don't fancy buying a PS3 for the 3rd time to check out more issues. the last PS3 i regrettably bought was a 320gig slim which kept turning itself off every hour or 2 so i returned it thinking it was faulty to be told it was a safety feature LOL.got my cash back and bought something that worked for longer than 2 hours without whimping out on me like a little girl.

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BubloZX4799d ago

Flash works just fine on the ps3. I often boot up re!mote play on my vital to make use of the ps3's browser. Its actually pretty good now. And I welcome IE to my 360

Biggest4799d ago

I most definitely use the PS3 browser to watch UFC/Boxing via First Row Sports. Almost all of their streams use Flash. I wish I knew that the Flash player I had been using didn't actually work. Maybe my eyes and ears are magic!

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ChunkyLover534799d ago

Microsoft seems to be turning the Xbox 360 into a great source of universal entertainment. Internet Explorer is also a pretty good browser and will probably work really well.

I'm sure we'll see the comments about games and all of that, but I think this is a natural progression and Microsoft will want to continue to sell the Xbox 360 to people after the 720 has come out.

Microsoft is going hard in the paint to get into peoples houses by any means necessary.

h311rais3r4799d ago

Internet explorer is complete garbage.

_Aarix_4799d ago

Maybe on pc but internet explorer intergrated in a console would be awesome. Keyword "intergrated"

darthv724799d ago

depends on the version. 6 and 7 were crap. 8 was alright but 9 is really REALLY solid. I have found myself using it more than firefox as of late.

FF12 has been using so much more memory resources and IE9 uses almost half as much even on the same pages.

Emilio_Estevez4799d ago

You lost all credibility at 'Internet Explorer is also a pretty good browser'

OT: No matter how good or bad it may end up being, something is better than nothing for sure.

badkolo4799d ago

great news indeed, a little late the party but if it works like all the other apps on the 360 then this should run smooth, hoping of coarse

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‘I think Xbox hardware is dead’, says Microsoft gaming veteran

One of the founding members of the Xbox team has questioned Microsoft’s multiplatform gaming strategy, and said they believe the Xbox hardware business is effectively “dead"

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Goodguy011d 7h ago

Think that rumor that they'll still make a new console but at a profit at $1000 will be true though. The series consoles will remain their cheap alternative throughout next gen I would say. Keep in mind that game pass and pretty much going 3rd party is their main focus. They want to bring xbox everywhere.

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GamerRN11h ago

If they don't maintain some kind of console presence, I think they will lose gamepass subscribers and just become a 3rd party publisher who eventually sells everything off

Cacabunga10h ago

Xbox games are releasing on all platforms. Who needs this hardware? PS or PC is all you need

Flewid6389h ago

I've never owned an Xbox in my life and I have GamePass.

thorstein7h ago

The only Xbox I owned was the 360. I have gamepass for my PC.

GamerRN3h ago

Majority of Gamepass users are currently on console...

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crazyCoconuts9h ago

Even if they could get it down to $800 for a box that can run with comparable performance to a PS6 (at, say $200 cheaper) the population of people willing to buy such a thing would be so limited.
It would be the worst of both worlds.

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Futureshark20h ago

A slow, painful and public death too.

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Looming Xbox layoffs threaten Microsoft's reputation

Even as the company sets out to overhaul the very definition of Xbox, cuts at its studios risk creating a negative image reminiscent of EA's worst era

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Jingsing3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

I appreciate the article but this guy must be living in a delayed universe, The reputation was ruined 10+ years ago and hasn't recovered since. As such people have voted with their wallets and stopped buying Xbox products in large amounts.

YourMommySpoils2d ago

Their reputation was lost way before that. From the moment Microsoft said they entering the console business, we all knew it would be a downgrade.

Bathyj1d 16h ago (Edited 1d 16h ago )

That's not true at all the OG Xbox had drive and they had hunger and they wanted to accomplish something. It was a great console.

they didn't quite reach their goals and they gave up prematurely because they couldn't win. It was halfway through the Xbox 360 when kinect released and that was when they lost their way and we're a rudderless ship ever since

Agent751d 13h ago

In all fairness, Xbox had some great games with online play, Xbox 360 even better. Xbox consoles started to die with the Xbox One. Ditch consoles for the PC and PS.

YourMommySpoils1d 5h ago

@Bathyj hard to compute ay. Xbox was never better than a PC and that's all they ever were. A demo box. Doesn't get more true than that.

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isarai3d ago

What reputation is this threatening exactly? 😂

Lightning773d ago

Rumors of Turn 10 being either shut down or hit with massive lay offs is on the horizon.

The issue is MS will do something right only to do something very, very wrong. And they do this what seems calculative at this point. Doesn't matter what they do the Investors and leadership want more and more money an endless bottomless pit of purr insatiable greed. A company that acts like it's broke or hurting is what really, really infuriates me. They've surpassed apple again well over 3 trillion who acts like they're a million dollar company is fk stupid. Pivots and changes for no reason and can't do things for more than a year with out a pivot or changing their metrics.

Christopher2d ago

That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest.

1Victor2d ago

@christopher: “ That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest”
The key word big can be ether good or bad 🤷🏿only time can tell

DarXyde2d ago

First Forza being generated entirely via AI?

If any company would do it, it'd be them.

Nacho_Z1d 21h ago

Isn't the point that it's irrelevant how profitable MS is, the suits have decided it's time that the Xbox division started making them money. Hence the layoffs, the pivots.

hennessey861d 16h ago

That wouldn't surprise me, as motorsport has been heading down hill since the great number 4. Where as playground have consistently put out better games. I think the two studios will be merged under playground games banner.

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Microsoft planning “major” Xbox layoffs next week

The cuts are expected to be announced next week.

Microsoft is also planning thousands of job cuts that will impact other parts of it businesses

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Obscure_Observer6d ago

MFs has been beating their chests over great quarterly results and big profits to shareholders while firing people by the thousands just like Sony.

I wonder if at the top of those rumored layoffs they´ll also cancel upcoming or unannounced games while shutting down more studios as well.

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pwnmaster30006d ago

Always got to throw shade at Sony smh.
Yes we get it,
MS good Sony bad
MS bad Sony is also bad lmao

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Obscure_Observer6d ago

F* them both!

Just for the record, I don´t care about your victim complex crap either. Find someone else who cares.

blacktiger6d ago

He was talking about both. Why you getting offended when he's using both names

pwnmaster30006d ago (Edited 6d ago )

@Blacktiger

Im not offended , that’s just his formula lol
He can’t help help himself, he needs to bring Sony down when the topic involves MS.
Whether is good news for MS or bad, it some how leads to Sony doing bad lmao.
It’s actually hilarious.

InUrFoxHole6d ago

He's not wrong but im tracking what youre saying. In this case is should just be MS bad. Thats a lot of people fired

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Tacoboto6d ago

"just like Sony"

Gosh you're insufferable, not everything needs to be both-sides'd. Sony's had layoffs, but nothing like what Microsoft has been doing and is continuing to do.

CrimsonWing696d ago (Edited 6d ago )

I mean, no offense, but this is why you’re not some corporate business person running a major corporation. Big profits don’t mean jobs are safe. Do you understand why things like this happen:

Cutting jobs to maintain or increase profitability, especially in underperforming divisions like parts of Xbox like other gaming divisions.

Corporate restructuring and relocating resources for strategic stability in ever changing markets and consumer behaviors.

Investor expectations and optimizing operations to maintain investor confidence. Whatever boosts stock prices and improves future margins.

And there’s many other factors at play. It’s never as simple as business doing well, everyone’s safe. That’s just you not understanding at all how corporations work and have been working since the beginning. This isn’t something that’s specific to Xbox, you can bet your ass Sony and Nintendo do this and if it’s not clear by now, game development is not a stable job nor has it ever been for many. A lot of developers are contractors and guess what happens when a project is done?

Ganif6d ago

Nintendo said they have no plans for layoffs, and you can't seriously claim that the scale of Sony's layoffs most of which involved Bungie which is self managed as even close to the same scale as what Microsoft has done since they purchased Zenimax. And that significantly less layoffs would have happened if those publishers had stayed independent. Keep in mind that much of these layoffs have been due to redundancies specifically related to these buyouts.

CrimsonWing696d ago (Edited 6d ago )

@Ganif

Nintendo:

https://gamerant.com/ninten...

Sony:

https://gamerant.com/playst...

https://techxplore.com/news...

I don’t think it’s realistic to treat Sony’s layoffs as somehow outside the norm for the industry right now. Even if Bungie is self-managed, Sony’s cuts went far beyond that like Naughty Dog, Insomniac, London Studio being shut down completely, and multiple teams across the globe took hits. These weren’t just minor adjustments.

Nintendo, I had to look up and you’re right. They seem to be an outlier, but rest assured at some point it happens. And even then there’s been layoffs, albeit a smaller amount and contractors.

Would fewer layoffs have happened if studios from acquisitions stayed independent? Maybe. But even independents have been hit hard and look at what’s happened with Embracer’s fallout, or smaller devs like Digic, Roll7, or Volition. This isn’t just a “Microsoft problem” or strictly tied to acquisitions; it’s a broader correction happening across the whole industry, and unfortunately, layoffs are a big part of that process right now.

Ganif6d ago

From your article:

"According to reports, Nintendo of America restructured its testing operations, leading to layoffs of about 120 contractors, part of a strategy for global integration.

Nintendo of America, publisher of iconic franchises like Mario and Zelda, is shifting some contractors to full-time roles for better development integration."

Contractors are not employees, and even if you want to count them as that, it's 120 people vs around 7500 since Microsoft purchased Zenimax.

In an era of game industry layoffs, Nintendo is hiring more people
https://automaton-media.com...

Nintendo Announces 10 Percent Pay Raise For Devs Despite Lower Profits
https://kotaku.com/nintendo...

Nintendo CEO’s refusal to layoff staff goes viral following industry-wide cuts
"Satoru Iwata took pay cuts to ensure staff didn’t have to be let go"
https://www.nme.com/news/ga...

And as for Sony you're comparing less than 1000 total jobs to an estimated7500

Has the industry faced layoffs, yes, but that still doesn't account for the mass layoffs due to redundancies that was easily predictable, or that fact that at least 1/3 of Microsoft's layoffs and studio closures happened before the industry downturn.

thorstein6d ago (Edited 6d ago )

Take the L, Crimson.

People hate Nintendo, but Ganif proved why they deserve support.

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-Foxtrot6d ago

It's like banging your head off a wall, he just can't help himself.

Microsoft can do no wrong, Sony sucks at everything and Nintendo is bigged up because it's less hassle than trying to defend Microsoft all the time

What's going to happen when Microsoft finally turn completely third party, then what?

anast6d ago

I enjoy Obscure. Obscure does good work.

crazyCoconuts6d ago

Did you know that the first n4g was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program.

Tacoboto6d ago

I wouldn't be surprised at this point if anast and osbcure were both alts for the Admin.

We know how Obscure especially drums up additional comments and clicks with his spam-worthy remarks that somehow never get moderated

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Profchaos6d ago

Thats business present a strong front to your shareholders while your company burns around you.

Keep shareholders happy at all costs andnif not happy keep them numb to the reality of you organisation

Angyobangyo5d ago

" Just for the record, I don´t care about your victim complex crap either. Find someone else who cares. "

Just for the record, you clearly you do if you have to vent this hard.

TheExecutioner5d ago

Basically you think like kids when it come to choose between candy or chocolate.

Sonic18815d ago (Edited 5d ago )

Are you and Anast the same person?

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