Microsoft’s grand ambitions for original TV content are over. Yesterday, the company confirmed_it would be closing Xbox Entertainment Studios in the coming months. Some projects will continue, such as the Signal to Noise documentary series and Spielberg-produced Halo television show, but otherwise Xbox Originals is dead. It’s hardly surprising. A report by Recode suggests the studio, established in September 2012,_is “disorganized” and “struggling” to clinch important business deals. Dawn Chmielewski paints quite a bleak picture in her article, but of greater importance is the business rationale behind Microsoft’s original television aspirations. Unlike Netflix, the company wanted its Originals library –...

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