{"id":174754,"date":"2016-08-04T12:27:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T10:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=174754"},"modified":"2016-08-04T12:30:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T10:30:37","slug":"windows-maps-now-on-xbox-one-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/174754-windows-maps-now-on-xbox-one-preview.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows Maps now on Xbox One Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Maps is available on the Xbox One for Preview users, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/windows-maps-now-live-xbox-one-video\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Central reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Based on Bing Maps and HERE, the report states the service\u00a0has the same features it\u00a0offers\u00a0on PC and Windows 10 Mobile.<\/p>\n<p>You can synchronise your favourite locations\u00a0to your\u00a0Microsoft Account, get directions, and browse 3D maps.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Microsoft has changed the control scheme for the console version of the app.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of using a mouse\u00a0cursor, you move around in the same way as you would in\u00a0the map of an open-world video game.<\/p>\n<p>Windows Central&#8217;s video showing Windows Maps for Xbox One is embedded below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6h-swruRWoY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Microsoft<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/174728-microsoft-apple-and-google-should-block-pirate-downloads.html\"><strong>Microsoft, Apple, and Google should block pirate downloads<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/174336-microsofts-winning-windows-10-move.html\"><strong>Microsoft\u2019s winning Windows 10 move<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/174626-windows-10-anniversary-update-brings-microsoft-edge-extensions-support.html\"><strong>Windows 10 Anniversary Update brings Microsoft Edge extensions support<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/174212-microsoft-brings-chakracore-to-linux-and-os-x.html\"><strong>Microsoft brings ChakraCore to Linux and OS X<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/174000-microsoft-to-retrench-2850-employees.html\"><strong>Microsoft to retrench 2,850 employees<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Maps is available on the Xbox One for Preview users, Windows Central reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":174762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,123,26970,38414,19572],"class_list":["post-174754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-maps","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174784,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174754\/revisions\/174784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}