With Activision-Blizzard and Microsoft finally under the same roof, Xbox has a huge, huge opportunity

[Windows Central]

Microsoft has cleared all hurdles in its efforts to buy the Call of Duty maker. What's next for Xbox? Here's what we know.

With Activision-Blizzard and Microsoft finally under the same roof, Xbox has a huge, huge opportunity : Read more

 

[Jcmg62]

100% guarantee Microsoft will find a way to screw this up.

It goes something like this.

Microsoft develop or acquire something awesome, only to hand it off to a dozen fifedom building business units headed by egomaniacs who don't like to play with other business units.

Through sheer force of will, they hand it off to the world's most inept marketing team, who do what they do best. Nothing.

Said awesome product / service ends up an unsupported and embarrassing sack of sh!t that gets dumped.

The world's most inept communications team swing into full gear and fail to communicate that Microsoft has screwed the awesome thing up and won't be continuing with it.

Take a bow, windows phone, band, zune, cortana, Harmon kardon speaker, duo, neo and probably the entire surface line, now that Panos is gone.

I'd add hololens to this, but some Microsoft fan boys will probably argue that it's not dead. However, I've watched those launch videos where executives (all of whom have since been fired) were out there showing us cool games and cliff house and floating apps. Where's all that? Vapourware....