“If you look at our history in mobiles, we have never blocked anything off this platform because we compete in the same space, at least not in the phone space.” “We think it’s pretty clear – I was slightly worried that when we showed off Xbox Live on the Windows Phone 7 platform people might think it was Microsoft trying to own the [mobile] world.”

But the simplest way to put it is that there’s a very obvious reason we called it the Games hub and the Music + Video hub: Zune and Xbox are key parts, but not the only parts, of the overall Windows Phone experience.”

Chang further points out that Microsoft has allowed competing products to co-exist on the Windows Mobile platform with no conflict in the past, pointing to the company’s open stance on competing products and services, such as web browsers and office software.

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