The codename clues just keep on coming. Right after yesterday’s blog post on Microsoft’s “Ventura” music/video services that are under construction, I was tipped by some reliable tipster types about a related codename: “Orapa.”
Orapa is a city in Botswana and home to the Orapa game park, as well as one of the largest diamond mines in the world. Given Microsoft’s (and especially the Interactive Entertainment Business unit’s) love for city codenames these days, it fits suitable in.
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Orapa, in development now, is going to be a combination of Xbox Live and Microsoft’s Mediaroom IPTV, from what I’m hearing. It would give Microsoft a way to turn TV into a service that it could deliver to Xbox customers first, and Windows, Windows Phone and set-top-box customers, later.
Orapa will enable the mash-up of Mediaroom features, Xbox Live social features (like avatars and recommendations),
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