Next Xbox Reveal Set For May 21, 10:00 A.M. PST, Livestreamed

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Dabanton said:
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Holy shit, now I'm hyped.
 
Interesting:

Just because a company builds a bunch of new frameworks and services doesn't guarantee developers will immediately flock to them. The current-day Microsoft -- in the midst of trying to win over brand-new non-Microsoft developers while keeping loyal ones in the fold -- knows this well.

Rather than simply sit back and wait for devs to (hopefully) embrace its growing set of new technologies, the Redmondians have decided to go proactive. On May 13 -- just over a month ahead of Microsoft's Build 2013 developer conference -- Microsoft is launching a new "deep tech" team inside its Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) unit. The new team is charged with working with top developers outside the company to build next-generation applications on top of the Microsoft platform.

When Microsoft initially launched DPE in 2001, the team was charged with coordinating and evangelizing the "Microsoft platform." At that time, the platform meant, primarily, Windows, the .Net Framework and associated tools.

These days, as Microsoft works to morph from a software vendor to a devices and services one, what constitutes the "Microsoft platform" is something much broader.

"'The platform' is now a collection of capabilities across all of our products," said John Shewchuk, the head of the recently formed technical evangelism and dev team. Our job is "helping devs stitch together solutions with these technologies."
johnshewJohn Shewchuk

"Devs" also is a much broader target audience for Microsoft than it once was. Back in the early DPE days, devs meant professional, full-time programmers. The target audience for Microsoft's new deep-tech team includes anyone who writes a consumer, business or hybrid application. That means startups, enterprise customers and top consumer and business independent software vendors (ISVs).

The Microsoft toolbox from which devs can choose to mix and match includes many technologies that didn't exist a decade, or even just a few years, ago. They include everything from Windows Azure technologies, to Bing programming interfaces and datasets, to the WinRT framework underlying Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Microsoft's next Xbox, Kinect, Windows Phones, Surfaces, Perceptive Pixel multitouch displays are among the targets for these technologies.

"This is a playground. We get to work with stuff from all the different Microsoft business groups," said Shewchuk. "It's like geek heaven."
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http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-builds-a-deep-tech-team-to-attract-next-gen-developers-7000015270/
 
Dabanton said:
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Guys, they put tents up on that soccer field like every other week in summer. Loads of events are on there. This very well might not be xbox related at all.. (unless tweeted by a xbox dude or something).

EDIT: Alright, Nelson tweeted a much better view. COntinue with hype.
 
godelsmetric said:
Why should Microsoft (or any company) bother figuring out ways to satisfy this kind of critic though? They should be worried about satisfying the average customer, not somebody who is writing articles about how the Xbox 720 is incontrovertibly doomed weeks before it's even announced.
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Well I mean it's just good that they can clearly see that there are people who they could still win over if they made a better system.

At this point it won't influence them as their choices are locked in, but at the time of development you can bet they were looking for ways to win over "haters".
 
The Albatross said:
Oh snap. This happens to me on one of my consoles all the time. I've googled but got nothing. What's the deal with it? I can get it to stop by hitting the menu and then booting up one of my games from "Recent" (which is usually what I do anyway), and then going back to the dash and it's fine.

This is also the same console that constantly loads up every profile on my console and asks me to choose one, even though I haven't chosen another one in 3 years... and my other consoles have multiple profiles as well.
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I ended up rebooting as I couldn't get the mini guide to load either. Not sure what the issue is/what causes it. I cleared the cache, so I'm hoping that's fixed it, but it seems pretty random as to when it strikes.
 
lastflowers said:
Guys, they put tents up on that soccer field like every other week in summer. Loads of events are on there. This very well might not be xbox related at all.. (unless tweeted by a xbox dude or something).

EDIT: Alright, Nelson tweeted a much better view. COntinue with hype.
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Aaron and MajorNelson posted these pics clearly referencing the XboxReveal.
 
It looks like a strange setting for a conference though... will there be rows of chairs on which the journalists will be sitting ? I would have expected a stage and an amphiteater.
Looks more like a dancing floor for a wedding. :P Or the place where they will be drinking cocktails before/after the conference.
 
Alx said:
It looks like a strange setting for a conference though... will there be rows of chairs on which the journalists will be sitting ? Looks more like a dancing floor for a wedding. :P
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They said, that its going to be a rather small event.
 
Alx said:
It looks like a strange setting for a conference though... will there be rows of chairs on which the journalists will be sitting ? Looks more like a dancing floor for a wedding. :P
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Its like a small scale version of that giant hangar they used for the 360 launch
 
Calvarok said:
Well I mean it's just good that they can clearly see that there are people who they could still win over if they made a better system.

At this point it won't influence them as their choices are locked in, but at the time of development you can bet they were looking for ways to win over "haters".
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Maybe? Some 'haters' will just never buy a Microsoft console though, and I would rather Microsoft didn't waste their time bending over backwards so that 'Ulimat3Killzon3Fan69' can still refuse to buy it because 'M$ lololol'.

I mean, I think Zack Snyder is an awful, talentless hack of a film director but I don't think he should waste time or effort trying to please me because he's obviously got something going on that lots of people like.
 
ekim said:
Aaron and MajorNelson posted these pics clearly referencing the XboxReveal.
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yep yep, I thought some rando just posted a photo. Didn't realize they were people from the xbox team ;).

I see these tents all the time, most of the time they're for morale events and release parties for teams. My teams release event was on that same field
 
lastflowers said:
yep yep, I thought some rando just posted a photo. Didn't realize they were people from the xbox team ;).

I see these tents all the time, most of the time they're for morale events and release parties for teams. My teams release event was on that same field
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You, Baconsammy's brother and the other guy I quoted... Leak something! :P

Edit: it's Calvarok.
 
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