Now that he ’s all set to retire , Billy G is throwing all the former rules out the window . The most current one : the company ’s disdain for modders and console - backup - actor . In an interview with Ars Technica , a MS employee recounts a story about a member of his squad who brought his modded Xbox to show Bill Gates .
A little over a year ago , one of the people in my radical modded an Xbox , set up Avalaunch , and put all sort of Xbox modern scene apps on the boxwood , like XBMC , RSS readers , etc , along with some “ backup ” games . : rolleyes : He brought this boxful along to a meeting with Bill Gates . Bill saw a demonstration of this , was quite impressed , and asked something along the lines of “ How can we engage this community ? ” – instead of saying something like “ How can we squash this ? ” It ’s long been on the back of everyone ’s minds in the Xbox chemical group – how can we get students and hobbyists involve without disrupting the console business framework ? The unspoilt news is that it ’s still on the radar , we ’ll see what happens in the future .
That ’s quite interesting that there would be legitimacy given to the Xbox mod prospect by Gates . perhaps instead of saying how they can engage them , perchance Microsoft should be figuring out how they can instruct from them . The XBMC mod for Xbox is easy - age ahead of the sensitive playback capabilities of the Xbox 360 . If they could somehow becharm up even midway , with DivX playback and culture medium storage , many of these Xbox modders would leap on the 360 .
But , it ’s nice to see that they ’re paying tending to what ’s going on and actively trying to make their product better .
Is Bill Gates determine from the mod community?[Ars Technica ]
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