The capabilities of the Xbox Live service are set to be extended once again later this year, with new video chat functionality and the ability to download arcade style games being announced at Microsoft's pre-E3 conference.
The new abilities were announced by Microsoft vice president J Allard at the conference, and are expected to be rolled out on the service later this year - although exact timescales aren't known, and it took almost a year for the new Xbox Live features discussed at last year's E3 to appear in the form of the Xbox Live 3.0 "Tsunami" upgrade.
Xbox Live video chat is a similar idea to Sony's recently announced Eye Toy: Chat system, and will allow video conferencing over the service using USB cameras, along with a number of fun features such as the ability to send music. It's not clear whether the USB camera will also be used in games, as Eye Toy is, or if it's solely designed for video conferencing.
News source: gamesindustry.biz
The new abilities were announced by Microsoft vice president J Allard at the conference, and are expected to be rolled out on the service later this year - although exact timescales aren't known, and it took almost a year for the new Xbox Live features discussed at last year's E3 to appear in the form of the Xbox Live 3.0 "Tsunami" upgrade.
Xbox Live video chat is a similar idea to Sony's recently announced Eye Toy: Chat system, and will allow video conferencing over the service using USB cameras, along with a number of fun features such as the ability to send music. It's not clear whether the USB camera will also be used in games, as Eye Toy is, or if it's solely designed for video conferencing.
News source: gamesindustry.bizUPDATE: On a side note, Microsoft has also updated MS01-052, and MS04-14 yesterday. The details are listed below.
MS01-052
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-052.mspx
Reason for re-release: Bulletin updated to advise of the availability of an update for Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition. This update addresses an additional denial of service vulnerability.
Originally posted: October 18, 2001
Updated: May 11, 2004
Version: 3.0
MS04-014
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-014.mspx
Reason for re-release: Microsoft has released a revised version of the Windows XP security update that contains the correctly localized optional Jet error strings.
Originally posted: April 13, 2004
Updated: May 11, 2004
Version: 2.0
*thinks about how the Modding community will like Microsoft for giving out USB converters*
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