Microsoft has already been talking quite a bit about its Azure cloud and how it will make gaming on the Xbox One better. The company has said little about streaming games. This, however, might change soon. According to CNET, some Microsoft employees have leaked that this cloud will be named Rio. Microsoft apparently talked about Rio during its annual company meeting.Rio will apparently let gamers stream their Xbox One games to their Surface tablets or Windows Phone devices at "Xbox-level visual quality." This is a lot like the PlayStation 4's remote-play feature through which gamers can stream PS4 games to their PlayStation Vita. The same Rio service is also said to be useful for backwards compatibility, allowing Xbox One owners to play their 360 games.
The cloud could bring backwards compatibility to the Xbox One
The cloud has to be used for backwards compatibility on the Xbox One because of the radical change in architecture between the 360 and the One. The Xbox 360 ran on PowerPC architecture, whereas the Xbox One runs on x86, which brings the console to the same architecture as PCs.There have been quite a few leaks from the company's annual meeting. A recent one was a move to combine the app stores for Windows Phone and Windows. The move was apparently confirmed by the head of Microsoft's Operating Systems group Terry Myerson in an internal company meeting. The meeting was supposedly attended by thousands of Microsoft employees. The updates, expected to be Windows Phone 8.1 and a special update to Windows 8.1, are expected to be available in 2014.It is still quite unclear how the single Windows Store will work. There is a chance that the company might make Windows Phone apps compatible with Windows 8 and vice versa in the new store, or it could take the approach that both Apple and Google have taken with the App Store and Google Play respectively, where there can be either platform-exclusive apps or universal apps that work on both tablets and smartphones.
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