#Xbox and Microsoft

Microsoft, in partnership with the Academy of Interactive Entertainment, will hold a workshop, namely, Xbox Academy. The said workshop is comprised of series of sessions, tackling on how to create games for Xbox and PC platforms. It will also teach them on how to make a game and run it on Xbox One console. Aside from that, students can also use Visual Studio to deploy their games into the Xbox One and play it. In July 2017, Microsoft, along with Adobe and their industry technology partners, announced that Adobe Flash Player would no longer be supported after December 2020. The last quarter numbers from Microsoft are out and it's not looking very good. Revenue growth was driven primarily by increased SQL Server and Windows Server revenue and increased Xbox 360 platform revenue, substantially offset by decreased revenue from Windows operating systems as a result of PC market weakness and a continued shift to lower priced netbook PCs. With every press launch I attend that introduces newer netbooks, one of the very first questions I usually ask is the shelf life of Windows XP and how it could hurt Microsoft's bottomline. Read more in our articles including "Xbox and Microsoft to launch game development workshop" and "Microsoft to end Adobe Flash support for Windows 10 in July".