I believe product tying is the phrase you're looking for.
No more mojang/mc accounts all auth will be thru live.microsoft.com.
No more java, next version will be dotnet only.
No more ingame chat but skype will be integrated.
Pocket edition works great on my android phone, that'll be the first thing to be "fixed", although the 0.5% of the population with windows phones will now be able to run minecraft.
I've only run it on my linux desktop, although I'm told it runs on Windows I don't have 64 bit windows set up so it runs out of memory. Whatever it'll never run again on linux and possibly macs.
As you imply the UI will have keyboard/mouse removed and you'll only be able to use kinect.
No more mojang/mc accounts all auth will be thru live.microsoft.com.
No more java, next version will be dotnet only.
No more ingame chat but skype will be integrated.
Pocket edition works great on my android phone, that'll be the first thing to be "fixed", although the 0.5% of the population with windows phones will now be able to run minecraft.
I've only run it on my linux desktop, although I'm told it runs on Windows I don't have 64 bit windows set up so it runs out of memory. Whatever it'll never run again on linux and possibly macs.
As you imply the UI will have keyboard/mouse removed and you'll only be able to use kinect.