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It wasn't so long ago that Microsoft killed off a major content category in the Microsoft Store, music, causing many to question whether buying content from the Microsoft Store was a wise investment if Microsoft could pull that content at any time. Yesterday, Microsoft did it again, this time with its books service, which arguably wasn't as popular as the music category, but the move provides more reasons to be unsure about the Microsoft Store.
Microsoft has proven that it will pull digital content categories from its storefront without a moment's notice, so should you be worried about your Movies & TV content from the Microsoft Store? Let's think about this logically. The reasons behind Microsoft pulling music and books from its online store is simple: not enough people were using those categories to warrant the money Microsoft was spending to keep those services alive. This is slightly different than books, but we'll get into that in a minute.
If Microsoft wants to sell music on the Microsoft Store, it needs to buy the licenses to sell it. In addition, Microsoft had a music-streaming service, which again, required Microsoft to pay streaming license fees to music companies. For that music to be available, Microsoft must pay licenses for that music up front. This means that if not enough people are subscribing to Microsoft's music service, or buying music in the Microsoft Store, Microsoft is spending more than it's making.
Microsoft's book store is going away because not enough were using it, just like its music offerings, but this time we're coming at it from a completely different perspective. Unlike music, Microsoft doesn't have to pay licenses in advanced to sell books. The author or publishers host the book on the Microsoft Store, and if someone buys it, the author or publishers get most of the revenue and Microsoft takes a small cut. There's very little upkeep in hosting books in the Microsoft Store.
With that in mind, I'd bet Xbox is the primary reason Movies & TV is still available in the Microsoft Store. Users on Xbox can buy movies and watch them right on the big screen. They can even watch them on their Windows 10 PCs and tablets. Admittedly, this service would make much more sense if it had iOS and Android apps to go with it. But it doesn't.
I can't imagine many people are buying movie and TV content from the Microsoft Store on their PCs, so the bulk of this category must be hanging on Xbox. Of course, Microsoft could pull this category at any time, but it would leave Xbox without a native platform to buy movies. Unlike music, which is usually made available on streaming services around the same time it's released to buy, movies can take months to show up on streaming services like Netflix. Of course, Amazon is another movie and TV marketplace, but it doesn't come with the Xbox by default, the Microsoft Store does.
So, if you're an Xbox user and you want to watch the latest movies, it's likely those new movies will only be available in the Microsoft Store for months before it shows up on Netflix. This is why I have a collection in the Microsoft Store, because many of the movies I want to watch aren't available on streaming services yet. I bet a lot of other people are the same.
There's also Movies Anywhere, a service that lets you store all your digital movies in the cloud, and access them across different devices and services. If Movies & TV were to ever go away, some of your content would be safe if you have a Movies Anywhere account. (There are some licensing restrictions on what is available on which service.) Unfortunately, Movies Anywhere is U.S. only, so those outside the U.S. would be out of luck. It also doesn't support TV content, only movies.
MSN TV (formerly WebTV) was a web access product consisting of a thin client device that used a television for display (instead of using a computer monitor), and the online service that supported it. The device design and service was developed by WebTV Networks, Inc., a company started in 1995. The WebTV product was announced in July 1996 and later released on September 18, 1996. In April 1997, the company was purchased by Microsoft Corporation and in July 2001, was rebranded to MSN TV and absorbed into MSN.
While most thin clients developed in the mid-1990s were positioned as diskless workstations for corporate intranets, WebTV was positioned as a consumer product, primarily targeting those looking for a low-cost alternative to a computer for Internet access. The WebTV and MSN TV devices allowed a television set to be connected to the Internet, mainly for web browsing and e-mail. The WebTV/MSN TV service, however, also offered its own exclusive services such as a "walled garden" newsgroup service, news and weather reports, storage for user bookmarks (Favorites), IRC (and for a time, MSN Chat) chatrooms, a Page Builder service that let WebTV users create and host webpages that could later be shared to others via a link if desired, the ability to play background music from a predefined list of songs while surfing the web, dedicated sections for aggregated content covering various topics (entertainment, romance, stocks, etc.), and a few years after Microsoft bought out WebTV, integration with MSN Messenger and Hotmail. The setup included a thin client in the form of a set-top box, a remote, a network connection using dial-up, or with the introduction of Rogers Interactive TV and the MSN TV 2, the option to use broadband, and a wireless keyboard, which was sold optionally up until the 2000s.
The original WebTV network relied on a Solaris backend network[1] and telephone lines to deliver service to customers via dial-up, with "frontend servers" that talk directly to boxes using a custom protocol, the WebTV Protocol (WTVP), to authenticate users and deliver content to boxes.[2] For the MSN TV 2, however, a completely new service based on IIS servers and regular HTTP/HTTPS services was used.
WebTV Networks' business model was to license a reference design to consumer electronics companies for a WebTV Internet Terminal, a set-top box that attached to a telephone line and automatically connected to the Internet through a dial-up modem. The consumer electronics companies' income was derived from selling the WebTV set-top box.[4] WebTV's income was derived from operating the WebTV Service, the Internet-based service to which the set-top boxes connected and for which it collected a fee from WebTV subscribers. The service provided features such as HTML-based email, and proxied websites, which were reformatted by the service before they were sent to set-top box, to make them display more efficiently on a television screen.[4] 2ff7e9595c
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