![]() ![]() I'm also working on a major update to "Paul Thurrott's Windows Phone 8," and of course "Windows 8.1 Book" is an ongoing, basically daily concern. And when it's done, I'll see about getting it published to Kindle and Nook too. Big update, no matter how you slice it.īut now that I have a new format I really like, I'm thinking of this as version 2.0. ( The current version, 1.7, is available here.) It was going to add information about the Windows 8.1, iOS and Android, and Xbox One versions of Xbox Music. It's best to just accept things and move on.īefore switching to this format, I was working on what would have been "Paul Thurrott's Xbox Music" version 1.8. Again, that's what it's like to be a writer. But it's enough work that I'm already very unhappy about it. This is interesting enough to me that I'm doing it. More specifically, I won't need to write a different "playlists" section for every single supported platform. So rather than continually adding sections for Xbox Music on each new platform, I thought: Why make this book a centralized list of tasks that is platform agnostic? Within each task, I can explain to which platforms it applies, and point out the differences where applicable. And my expectation is that these similarities will increase over time. Skype sign in as offline android#Today, Xbox Music is available on far more platforms-Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8, Xbox 360, Xbox One, the web, iOS (iPhone/iPod touch) and Android (handsets and tablets)-and while there are still some big differences in the experiences, many of them are quite similar. So it made sense to sort of separate out the discussion between general topics and then address each platform separately. ![]() When I started the book last year, it was about using Xbox Music on Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Xbox 360, three platforms on which the Xbox Music user experience was (still is) completely different. Only a writer would torture himself in such a way.īut here's my thinking. Last year, I wrote a free e-book called " Paul Thurrott's Xbox Music" that I used as a sort of proof-of-concept for task-based books, a format I later used for " Paul Thurrott's Windows Phone 8" and am using now for " Windows 8.1 Book." Since then, Xbox Music has exploded with different mobile app and web versions, and in prepping an update to the book, it occurred to me: Why not just change everything? ![]()
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