Microsoft announced yesterday that it was extending the online gaming service for its Xbox consoles to the millions of people who use Windows PCs to play games over the Internet, a move that could bolster the popularity — and profits — of video gaming. Xbox Live, Microsoft’s online gaming network that serves some six million Xbox users, is scheduled on May 8 to open its basic and premium features to online PC gamers under the rubric of Games for Windows — Live, Microsoft executives said.
surely it gonna boost the popularity of microsoft online gaming as well as their revenue..... i think the basic service will be free... if it is not it will take really very much time for it to be popular in india... as indians are not good users of net gaming till now..and they dont want to pay for playing the game when a pirated cd/dvd is available in the market...