'Arcadia' could be Microsoft's ultimate attempt at streaming games and apps
The idea of a streaming game service from Microsoft has been around the Internet for some time. And with reason. The company itself showed in September 2013 a service of the style running Halo 4 from the cloud on Windows and Windows Phone. The technology that made it possible was known as 'Rio'. This or a similar one with another name now comes back to the fore.
On ZDNet, Mary Jo Foley echoes a project codenamed 'Arcadia' that appears to be the sequel to river'.According to their sources, this is the name of a technology that is being developed by the Microsoft Operating Systems Group and whose objective is to offer a game and application streaming service from the cloudto any device.
How could it be otherwise, 'Arcadia' would be built on the Azure cloud. The service would connect to its servers to display on the screens of our computers, tablets and mobiles the software that is running. The cloud would be in charge of providing all the resources to move games and applications, allowing us to control any title or program that comes to our mind regardless of the type of device we are handling.
Although it would initially be intended to run on Windows machines, the service could end up being cross-platform Without going any further, the name of 'Arcadia' and references to its technology have also appeared in Microsoft job postings (I, II) in which work on a team within the Operating Systems Group is discussed and having experience in non-Microsoft operating systems.
Given the company's reinforced multiplatform strategy, it should not be surprising that Redmond could consider extending a service like this to systems like iOS and Android. Mary Jo Foley even raises the possibility of allowing users to stream Android apps and games on their Windows devices.
In any case, similar ideas and projects have been around the Windows universe for some time without anything having materialized in a final product yet. And it is likely that it will not do so in the near future, since the bet of Mary Jo Foley, who is usually right in these things, places it, if it ends up arriving, for a time after the departure of Windows 10 (Fall 2015 onwards).
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