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40 Days #27: Emancipate the Games for Windows Live dashboard

gfwlivesigninMaking Games for Windows Live free to play online should lead to more users on the Windows platform and more developers using the functionality. However, all those parties probably won't be very impressed with the current state of the "dashboard" part of GfWL software.

The biggest problem with it, all the more incomprehensible, given that Microsoft is a huge software company, is that the dashboard can only be accessed through the individual GfWL titles. It doesn't exist independently without them. Ironically, as far as Windows is concerned, the software actually is a bit independent, as it represents a separate item in the list of installed programs, with seemingly one shared set of libraries and code. Any updates to it are shared among all the installed titles on the system.

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