Microbox XSoft: Tangled Mess

Microsoft doesn't know how to allow other companies to be successful, even if it is it's own Xbox division.

Microsoft meddles in Xbox like a bad boss that needs to justify their existence. Xbox System Software can't be optimized because it has to run Windows programs. Xbox needs to launch all first-party titles day and date on PC. Xbox needs to help support Windows mobile devices. 

The one thing that Microsoft isn't allowing Xbox to do is to make a simple, straight-forward game console that emphasizes playing games and playing with each other. 

Microsoft has a chance to make things right. As cloud crashes and Microsoft changes course to full-client, ARM systems, there is an unprecedented chance for Microsoft to allow Xbox the ability to design hardware that is optimized, focused, and targeted at people that want to play games. No more day and date PC releases. Just one line of Microsoft portable devices made with gaming, and only gaming, as it's purpose. 

The Xbox Launch Pad, or whatever name they give it, should be an anti-Windows device. Minimalist UI with a Objectivist design. Power on, check leaderboards, watch community videos, launch game, play game, done. No ads, no suggestions, no distractions. WinAmp meets Discord. Ad-hoc and high fives, smaller games and bigger vibes. 

Xbox was never given a chance to walk as a console before being told to run the living room. This is Microsoft's chance to allow Xbox to build a foundation made of a pure gaming platform. If they want Xbox to find where things have gone wrong, they need a chance to build an example of how things go right.