The new Movies and TV service also has “direct integration with the Windows Store”, where you can buy or rent movies and TV shows in HD.
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This isn’t the first time the service has changed its name. It costs $9.99 a month or $99 a year.
The new Groove service will have access to 40 million songs and would provide an improved experience for listening and managing music. These include redesigned menus and navigation controls suitable for either mouse, keyboard or touch screens.
Microsoft has unveiled a number of updates to Windows 10’s entertainment system, including the complete rebranding of the Xbox Music app. Albums can be pinned to the Start menu, tracks can be dragged in and out of playlists, and the interface can be adjusted using pinch-to-zoom gestures, LeBlanc said.
Movies and TV (the renamed Xbox Video), the new visual media service, will come with the capability to allow users to import their personal videos.
After all, there’s already a Windows Phone/Windows 8 music app in the Store called “Groove: Smart Music Player.” That app, developed by Canadian startup Zikera, is also available for iOS. While I find the name to be an improvement, many Xbox fans will likely dislike the new name. Groove will support the ability to upload music files to Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage and access these songs on any Windows computer, tablet or phone, as well as the Xbox gaming consoles, and Android devices or iPhones. While the hardware was unsuccessful, the music service didn’t change its name until October 2012, almost one year after the hardware line stopped development. The Xbox Video will now be known as Movies and TV.
The other Xbox Music features are still there, so you can access your music on any device running Windows 10, which means that your content will be available not only on PCs, but also on tablets and smartphones powered by this OS version. “For anyone else, you’ll get to enjoy these updates with Windows 10 starting on July 29″.
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There’s also an independent music app for Windows and Apple called…
