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Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.theverge.com/news/709737/microsoft-movies-tv-store-closure-xbox-windows

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  • plz1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you don’t own the storage, you don’t own the content. You’re just renting it.

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  • brot@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you think about it: Microsoft owns XBox, that has been one of the three major consoles for decades now. They own Windows, the world’s most popular operating system. They own Edge, one of the major browsers. And they still failed to create a movie and TV store and shut down their music streaming service. Which is totally insane - that shit was bundled with fucking windows and Xbox and they still made it suck so hard that it failed

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    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think it’s more that consumers didn’t know what the fuck it was.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Microsoft had a movies and TV store?

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    • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They did. It was so awful with hardly any updates. I bought some things on it but usually when it was on major discount and connected to Movies Anywhere so I could watch it elsewhere.

      I don’t know why they had the same movie for sale… one with bonus features, one without… for the same price. Every other platform includes the bonus features automatically. Why separate them? Is there someone out there thinking, hmm… I like this movie, but I don’t want the bonus features.

      It was doomed to fail.

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      • Bonesince1997@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Movies Anywhere was the whole deal for me. With Microsoft connected, I used MA for its wishlist to indicate when things were on sale. Sometimes MS had a sale when other services did not! But that’s it.

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  • sirspate@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember when they killed their Games For Windows store and the games I’d bought on there just went poof. Never trust Microsoft to keep a digital storefront around, they’ll delete it all at the drop of a hat.

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    • oppy1984@lemdro.id ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Like with Bitcoin, not your keys not your coin. If you don’t hold it you don’t own it.

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  • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    if you can still sign in, then i recommend linking your account to moviesanywhere for the time being so you can at least access any movies purchased there in other apps.

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  • Poayjay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Remember when Microsoft was telling shareholders that the Xbox multimedia ecosystem was going to dominate living rooms everywhere, then people stopped hanging out in their living rooms?

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    • burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Imagine having a living room

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      • PraiseTheSoup@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You guys have rooms?

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    • kshade@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I remember it like it was yesterday. “Xbox, go home!”

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      MS ruined living rooms.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can see Microsoft just being the Azure company at this rate. Then they’ll have to charge what it costs to run and a lot of companies will wish they had stayed cloud agnostic.

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    • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The business is basically thirds last I looked. Windows, Office and Azure.

      Not sure how their purchase of platform companies they shouldn’t have been allowed to buy plays into that. Thinking LinkedIn and GitHub.

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    • Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They already make money hand-over-fist on Azure. Cloud computing is already quite expensive

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    • MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So the Microsoft brand is just for show and it’s actually called Azure.

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    • Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Azure is tiny compared to the competition.

      363 is much more successful comparatively. That said, its dying fast, with the utter garbage service upgrades, its enshitified hard into a rigid platform unsuitable for enterprises. So find/make a real alternative to EXO with the Outlook app: and 365 ends over night.

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      • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Azure is a very close second behind AWS and nearly twice the market share of GCP.

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’ll still be able to access content. But for how long?

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh well. They should have brought back the Zune. And my Nokia windows phone is bright yellow.

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    • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I liked Zune. Microsoft is the real killer of their own demise. They have great products/ideas, but they just torch them before they take root.

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      • pycorax@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        For what it’s worth, Windows Phone was sort of a successor to that. And then they went and killed it too…

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      • Juvyn00b@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ahem Sony ahem

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        always after the ever elusive profit margin. can’t have a product that lives forever became there’s no more profit after the market has been saturated.

        they then take all the IP they have and either license the technology or sell it for a profit or loss depending on what is needed.

        doesn’t matter though, because the consumer always loses.

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  • hopesdead@startrek.website ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Remember when Xbox required a Live subscription to use the any streaming entertainment app?

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    • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I distinctly remember them failing a console launch spectacularly by (among other things) trying to pass it as a media center and talking about how great it is to watch TV on.

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  • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Laughs in 1200 disc DVD collection

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      laughs in 20tb raid10 multimedia storage

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      • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        laughs in brain memory storing everything I’ve seen

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    • IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes, you could rent or buy series and movies.

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  • DemBoSain@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’ll still be able to access content you own

    Haha yes, that was never in doubt.

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    • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It will be if your using MS tech for it. They will pull the plug on that too. Just not yet, it’s quieter to do it separately later.

      On it’s on disks you control in formats you can play with anything you like, its never yours.

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