Microsoft is taking concrete steps to unify their themes and services across different platforms. The first efforts for this appeared in the form of the Metro design language which started from Windows Phone 7 and then moved on to Xbox Live, Office and Windows 8.

Today’s news, however, takes the process of unifying a step further: Xbox LIVE, Microsoft’s gaming and entertainment service for WP7 and Xbox 360, is coming to Windows 8 next year!

http://www.redmondpie.com/xbox-live-will-be-windows-8s-built-in-entertainment-service/

Windows 8 is just Windows Phone 7 for the big-screen imho!! Apart from the cloud element and the support for ARM processors, there isnt much that will draw me to think of it as the revolution Microsoft have been touting it as for the past 5 years!