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No tattoo's for me, that just ain't how I roll.

I can understand why MS introduced the points system as it gave a universal currency for buying items, a game in the US is the same cost as the UK, Australia, Japan etc
The bulk purchasing of points in blocks reduced the charges per transaction, so there are not 10 2% charges when you by 10 $0.99 games. It is one charge to get X amount of points that allow you to buy 10 games.

As a consumer however I can see the need for a real value amount instead of a strange translated value.

Star Trek WOOOT!

Erm Paul, that isn't quite what I said at all about backward compatibility :/

I love my Windows Phone etc but I try and avoid the arguments about which is better etc, no one will ever win those. It is all about personal preference and there is no right answer.

The reverse would be good also, though I assume you can infer the difference from this one.

So far in the UK the wallet hasn't got much use, hopefully this will change.

Always useful, could be doing with more tile sizes.

I assume this allows background GPS tracking, haven't tried it since WP7 and it didn't like it.

I look forward to this, might update my apps to support this feature.

I assume this will be for icon and full text support to replace the calendar text.

Should be good, you can never know too much.

I'm looking forward to news on the new Xbox and sure it would be good to have backwards compatibility but most folks who want that probably already have an Xbox 360 to play those games on.

I definitely think it will have a new Kinect, Bluray will be great a well as a larger friends list.

The illumiroom will be awesome but they have already mentioned that this is still WIP and won't be out with the new Xbox.

Another great marketing campaign kicks off for Windows Phone, very funny: http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2013/04/29/three-smartphones-and-a-wedding.aspx

@miknone: The Xbox Reveal on May 21st will be streamed live via the console or xbox.com so they might do the same thing for their E3 content.