No Web Browser for Xbox 360, Says Greenberg

[exfileme]

Microsoft has no plans to allow gamers to surf the Internet with the Xbox 360.

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[Guest]

If they gave the Xbox 360 IE, people would no longer need/want a Windows machine.

 

[sailfish]

If he were honest he'd simply admit that they don't want people getting video content from the X360 without making sure micro$~1 gets some action from it. Claiming to know what consumers don't want is arrogant to the max. Another reason why the PS3 is a better buy today, imo.

 

[rage machine]

I think what they mean to say is that IE is not good enough to implement on the 360 due to security problems.

 

[indran1412]

@sailfish

Agreed. Maybe M$ unable to plot any financial benefits by adding web browser to 360.

 

[Simple11]

When my PC fried, I used my PS3 on 32" bravia to get my porn :0

 

[SpadeM]

[citation][nom]Nocsious[/nom]If they gave the Xbox 360 IE, people would no longer need/want a Windows machine.[/citation]
IE + Xbox360 = IERod

 

[kashifme21]

Imo be it the PS3 or the Xbox both of them are Fail in 2010. Only machine id like to have is my PC. Both of them really dont offer much asides the handful of exclusives on the PS3 thats about it.

For the living room i woud rather have a HTPC.

 

[xophaser]

He is talking so much smack. My brother put linux on the PS3 and that browser was fast and looks great. My PS3 browser is oddly stiff at time, but if i get tired of gaming, I can check my email or facebook there.

The problem Microsoft has is it is a money grabbing whore. XBL cost money, with a browser they can't charge for features like facebook, netflix. Their 16gb usb hard drive cost 70 smacker. i am excited about natal, but I doubt any game for it will be any good this generation.

 

[fadeblack]

I first got online and on the web with a sega saturn. I was to poor to afford a pc. It worked great I could even order things securely and chat in IRC. It had a very nice picture that I could even blow up 4x the size which i cant even do on my new state of the art pc. If I could do all that on a old sega saturn on a old crappy TV why would it be so terrible on a xbox360? I would laugh at Microsoft for saying something so stupid but I wonder why they are lieing.

 

[silky salamandr]

[citation][nom]xophaser[/nom]He is talking so much smack. My brother put linux on the PS3 and that browser was fast and looks great. My PS3 browser is oddly stiff at time, but if i get tired of gaming, I can check my email or facebook there.The problem Microsoft has is it is a money grabbing whore. XBL cost money, with a browser they can't charge for features like facebook, netflix. Their 16gb usb hard drive cost 70 smacker. i am excited about natal, but I doubt any game for it will be any good this generation.[/citation]

Ask your brother how that linux is working out for him on his ps3... Dont worry, Ill wait for your response....

 

[silky salamandr]

I mean come on people. The browser on the ps3 is horrid. With all the memory problems always asking to close windows to flash sites not working all the way to the freezing and hard locking the system. Ive always wondered why they always wanna update my ps3 but they have never fixed browser stability.

All it is is another tick mark that sony crosses off their list of things they have but others dont. Just because I can speak a little spanish does that mean I can claim that I speak spanish?

 

[silky salamandr]

Lets be real, the only reason this is even revelant is it lets the little kiddies look at porn without their parents knowing. We all know parents these days let the tv an ps3 raise them.

 

[juliom]

Opera browser on Wii actually works very well on an SD TV.

 

[Vampyrbyte]

Browsing on the PS3 is fine. Its not the best browser, but it does the trick. Its not a nightmare using facebook at all. its really rather easy.

 

[jkflipflop98]

The real reason they don't put a browser on the 360 is because they'd rather make you pay for "apps" - which are nothing more than a website in a neat little wrapper.

 

[applerocks]

WHAT!?!? No FLASH on the XBOX 360?

 

[cscott_it]

[citation][nom]excalibur1814[/nom]Of course, most windows users run as admin and NEVER change the default security settings of ie.THEN they moan when they get infected?????Dumb.P.s. The moment a vrowser hits the 360, some clever fool will create a damn virus for it and all the pron lovers will fall straight in[/citation]

I need to hire three teams of engineers, one to create the browser, the second to create the virus, and a third to create the anti-virus.

Do some blackhat style SEO poisoning, see what I can do about stealing FREE GAMES ON X-BOX 360, X-BOX PORN, etc., and have those pages host the virus.

I'd be laughing all the way to the bank, and then jail.

 

[lukeeu]

So you still need a hacked savegame to get firefox on x360?

 

[Regulas]

I agree browsing on the PS3 is not worth it but MS is saying, "You will use or pay service Crapbox Live and nothing else and like it!"