Comments on: 20 million active users on Xbox Live

By: Steven Leicester

Steven Leicester — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:05:45 +0000

I use Xbox-Live nearly every day on my PC at work to message people and check rivals Gamerscore, so the OP is way off the mark.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:30:51 +0000

I thought you can use Xbox Live with a PC (and netbook). http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/live/
And the upcoming Zune HD is a handheld console, which will work with Live.

You should be able to access Live with the Android phone web browser.

I think Microsoft want as many people as possible inside their tent giving them money so they will try to be as platform agnostic as possible. But obviously different elements of Live will work on different platforms.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:20:22 +0000

Places you won’t ever be using Xbox Live: any PC, Mac or netbook, any handheld console, any non-Microsoft home console (i.e. the majority), any non-WinMo phone (i.e. the vast majority), most set-top boxes and media centres, the web.

XBL, like iTunes, is ideal for milking one narrow, proprietary channel, but it’s still a walled garden.