Microsoft's Operating Systems Group is staffing up a new team that is building an app and game streaming service for the company's 'core platforms.'



From All About Microsoft:

Some of those services are available today, such as OneDrive, Xbox Live and Office 365. But there are more to come. And one of those is something codenamed "Arcadia."

Arcadia, according to my sources, is the technology being developed by a new streaming team in Microsoft's Operating Systems Group. The Arcadia technology replaces the discontinued "Rio" game-streaming technology which Microsoft demonstrated at the company's annual meeting in September 2013.

Arcadia, which is being built on Microsoft's Azure cloud, according to sources, will stream not just games, but also certain apps.

  Microsofts Arcadia team is building a streaming app and game service