Microsoft has out of the blue shut its motion pictures and TV retailer on Xbox consoles and Home windows PCs. As of in the present day you’ll be able to now not buy new motion pictures or TV exhibits from the Microsoft Retailer on Xbox or Home windows, however you’ll nonetheless have the ability to entry beforehand bought content material on units.
“Downloads will proceed to be out there on Home windows and in HD max decision,” says Microsoft, however you’ll should proceed utilizing the Films & TV app on Home windows or Xbox to play the content material you personal slightly than entry it from one other service — until your bought motion pictures are a part of Films Wherever within the US. Microsoft isn’t providing a refund for purchases, both.
The closure of Microsoft’s motion pictures and TV retailer has been nervously anticipated by Xbox and Home windows customers ever since Microsoft shut down its Groove Music service in 2017. Microsoft initially launched a motion pictures and TV storefront with the Zune Video Market in 2006, earlier than it was changed by Xbox Video in 2012. That then morphed into the Films & TV app and retailer in 2015, and now a decade later it’s going away.
Microsoft is now leaving it as much as Amazon, Netflix, Apple TV, and the numerous different streaming video providers to cater for motion pictures and TV content material on Home windows and Xbox. Microsoft will proceed to offer assist for any points enjoying again beforehand bought content material, and homeowners will likely be hoping the corporate retains its servers on-line for a few years to come back.
