Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows 8 Could Break the Mold with This Feature

Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) next OS may be able to do something that no other Windows platform has done before...

Run Xbox 360 games.

According to gaming blog Teknylate, Windows 8 will allow users to run Xbox 360 games on their PC.

Teknylate said users will more than likely need to dish out more money for access to Microsoft Live online... a small price to pay for such convenience.

But this could be one of the few purely lucrative moves Microsoft has made in a while, the blog contests, citing three key points:

• No reproduction costs to convert discs from Xbox 360 to PC formats;
  
  
• More subscription revs; and
  
  
• Virtually free marketing, as more gamers might switch from something like Linux to Windows 8 instead, tapping a vast market in the process.

No word has come from Redmond on whether the rumor is true or not.

At this point, it would almost make sense for Microsoft since the company keeps losing money manufacturing and selling each Xbox 360 console. Keep in mind Xbox 360 debuted in the US nearly seven years ago. This is several years before Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone made it's debut, to give you an idea of how things have changed over the time period.

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