Gadgetory

next year will probably be the year that microsoft announces the next version of the xbox console and you know it's unclear what that's going to be they've called it Xbox next Xbox 720 which is of course two times that xbox 360 was you can imagine really interesting console from an industrial design standpoint but what I think is actually interesting is what comes after that because this could well be the last console we see I think video games in the future will be simply delivered digitally we won't have discs to put into the consoles and so you could imagine that in a TV set the technology itself so there or maybe in a set-top box but it's very easy for me to see in the future think phones is sort of one area where you might expect more of that will see they they haven't really shown their hand but I could imagine that could be one place I sort of wonder about tvs I you know Microsoft has given no indication of that certainly Apple is talked about that Microsoft is playing in the same world as Apple Microsoft actually has things that it can bring to that world with Xbox and video gaming that Apple can Microsoft feels the need and they're right that they need to be better in the consumer world they are an extraordinarily strong company in enterprises and big businesses but when it comes to the consumer world they really are trailing Apple and Google and others and so you know Microsoft has been making a big push particularly this year with Windows 8 particularly with something like the surface and with Windows Phone to try and become a bigger player in the consumer world