As you know that Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners currently need an Xbox Live Gold subscription to access most online apps and services.
With entertainment, sports and gaming apps will no longer live behind the Xbox Live Gold paywall, Microsoft has just confirmed, among other sweeping changes for Xbox One (although the paywall changes apply to Xbox 360 too).
Internet Explorer, Skype, OneDrive, OneGuide, GameDVR, Upload Studio and Twitch broadcasting will also now be free to all.
It means that you couldn’t use freely-available services such as 4OD, Skype, Internet Explorer or YouTube without being a Xbox Live Gold subscriber, something that has become increasingly unpopular among fans.
The old policy delayed the Xbox 360 release of BBC iPlayer, whose license fee-funded content cannot be put behind a paywall. An exception was eventually made, but Xbox One still lacks an iPlayer app.
