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Xbox and Windows Microsoft Mix for Portable Games will not come soon. Windows on Handhelds is in urgent need of some love, and Lenovo’s Legion Go S is the best proof so far that Microsoft has a big problem in the shape of Windows that should be solved on any portable Xbox devices that carry the Xbox mark.
Youtuber Dave2d I managed to test the Legion Go S with the new Steamos version along with the current Windows. The devices are completely the same, but the operating systems are completely different, and the results are open. Steamos -style games work better than Windows in low or medium settings, about 5 to 10 percent. These games are made for Windows, but the VALVE premium proton compatibility layer means that it works better with the help of Linux and Steamos.
The Legion goes with Steamos to outperform the motor performance in Valve, and you can get better if you are ready to sacrifice the battery. The battery life is on a portable game computer a large part of the experience, and the Steamos version of Legion is completely embarrassed by Windows in Dave2D tests.
in Dead cellsAt 60 frames per second, the Legion is run with Steamos for a little more than six hours, but on the Windows variable, he cannot even reach a three -hour mark. This is only half of the battery life to choose the Microsoft operating system. It is the same with HadesWhere the Steamos version is run for more than four hours, but the equivalent of Windows does not reach two.
my colleague Sean Hlester It has also found similar performance gaps between the default settings on Windows and Steamos, and Carrie Golomb He has Indicate There are some simple repairs to some battery life problems on Windows that Microsoft should really take.
Dave2D concludes that “Windows was the problem all the time”, and I think you summarize the laptop games and the great challenges of Microsoft here. Many battery life problems are due to the fact that Windows has not been designed for hand -running computers, and that games are not managed individually to improve this type of devices.
Besides the clear performance and the battery life of Steamos, Valve also built a sleeping system and appeals only. If you put a Windows PC to sleep for sleep, you will have a few hours to run again and then resume your game manually. This simply does not happen on Steamos devices, which are attached and properly resuming more reliably than their Windows counterparts.
Windows is also struggling with the power management of the sleeping devices, causing sip a lot of energy in the background or heating it inside your bag while trying to make updates. This is an essential problem with Windows that is not completely solved with Windows on ARM. If you are resuming a Snapdragon laptop after a day or two of use, it will be run from hibernation that looks almost as if you are from the cold. MacBook simply does not do it – and it shouldn’t have a portable game computer.
Windows also contains a lot of things that work in the background that most mobile computer computers do not need, or Safety features that can affect Performing games. OEMS such as ASUS, Lenovo and MSI use a full version of Windows because, so far, their only choice was.
The Steam Deck collection was an invitation to wake up for Microsoft a few years ago, and now I am ready to respond by combining the best Windows and Xbox parts to solve headaches. I wrote last year that Microsoft was In the Games PC raceWith Valve pushing to get computers using Steamos on their mobile. “If Microsoft does not act quickly, she may soon find itself in a battle to keep Windows related to mobile laptops.”
This pressure is now larger so that it is very easy to compare two identical pieces of devices that operate two very different systems. It highlights all the problems that Microsoft must solve by collecting Xbox and Windows together, and it shows very clearly that there is a lot to fix it. Microsoft must put these repairs, otherwise more and more original equipment manufacturers will simply choose Steamos for their mobile device.
Perhaps this is why we have not seen Microsoft’s business yet, as the company continues to get rid of the solution to these problems for a loader that corresponds to the Xbox devices that you are working on. I reported earlier this year that Microsoft operates with ASUS Made Development The name “Kenan Project”. Microsoft and ASUS They are both bothering The project a few days after the project’s reports appeared in March.
Images of the device after that She leaked earlier this month In FCC files, the Xbox button, which will serve as the home page button to make the new Xbox from Microsoft on Windows. I was really surprised by the vision of Computex by last week without the ASUS device, especially since the technology gallery is an ideal place to display any new game devices for a personal computer. Microsoft and ASUS are still planning to launch the device later this year, so I imagine that they want their own moment to show how Windows and Xbox meet.
We still have not seen any leaks from this Xbox interface on Windows, and I really hope you are more than just putting a big picture of the Xbox app. There should be basic changes on the entire operating system so that you never see Windows unless you really want it. Exactly what Microsoft is doing here will be necessary for the future of Windows portable gaming devices, and there is now a lot on the line that the original equipment manufacturers have the clear choice of Steamos.
Even if Microsoft is able to repair Windows so that a user interface is largely similar to Xbox devices, the PC players will still be needed that Steam is fully supported. Windows will remain at the heart of this experience, but I understand that Microsoft is working to display games from Steam and Epic Games Store in the Xbox app on Windows. Microsoft removed a I laughed at Xbox user interface image Earlier this year, which included steam candidate on the computer.
This work will turn the Xbox interface on Windows into an operator for the entire game library, while Microsoft can try to sell people on PC Game Pass instead. This is the truly main feature, outside the game’s compatibility, which Microsoft enjoys on Steamos for Handhelds at the present time, and I imagine that the combination of Windows and Xbox will end up in the game mode in the front and the center on the user interface.
All that remains now is for Microsoft and ASUS to stop their project and completely show us how Windows and Xbox can compete with Steamos.
- Microsoft wants to update Windows to deal with all applications. Microsoft has started opening Windows Update even any application of an external party to update. Developers can now apply for a special inspection of what Microsoft calls Windows Update Orvicestration. Windows Update will be able to support any application update or drivers in the future, and Microsoft is largely focused on business applications to facilitate their awareness of update management.
- Microsoft employee “Palestine” exceeds to send an email to thousands of employees to protest. Microsoft began banning signals from “Palestine”, “Gaza” and “Gennium” in the e -mail’s themes and in the message group last week, but it did not take long for The employee to overcome that mass Email thousands of employees protest. It was part of a series of protests throughout Microsoft Build last week, which also included a Microsoft employee that disrupts the keyword, balloons that are launched for warnings inside the Conference Center, and hundreds of demonstrators gather against Microsoft contracts with the Israeli government.
- Microsoft Notepad can now write for you using artificial intelligence. It is amazing that Microsoft barely touched the notebook decades ago, and now he was elected from the basic registry file reader to write the messages themselves. the Last update for Notepad He adds a new writing feature that can be used “to formulate the text quickly based on a router.” I still use Notepad to connect very basic notes or just clean large parts of the text, but I certainly don’t need to formulate anything for me. This is what the word.
- FTC falls against Microsoft. the FTC v. Microsoft The case is officially ended. the FTC filed an order to reject its complaint Last week, a few days after she lost a call for a preliminary judicial order to prevent Microsoft from completing the acquisition. It ends nearly two years of legal battles on the giant acquisition of Microsoft. If there is one thing I will always remember FTC v. MicrosoftHe is on vacation in Portugal during part of the case. I hit the salad at 2 am and I was sitting there with a laptop or AC computer, and I am the most ancient blogging.
- Microsoft exports Windows correction outside the range. Microsoft usually adheres to its monthly version of Tuesday’s safety correction and advantages of features, but sometimes the company releases one outside of the insects or particularly disturbing weaknesses. On Tuesday, Microsoft I released the emergency patch For the Hyper-V platform, correcting a problem for the Azure Confedeial Virtual devices that stopped responding or restarting it randomly.
- Microsoft has a new backup tool to help companies leave Windows 10 behind. I still don’t think the Windows 10 will actually go at the end of time later this year, but with Microsoft’s willingness to cut October, it has. A new ready tool For companies. Windows backups for organizations help reserve and restore data on the devices guaranteed by Microsoft Entra, which are now available as a file Limited general inspection.
- Microsoft begins in the Xbox Copilot test on iOS and Android. Microsoft has started offering an early version of Copilot to try games on iOS and Android. The assistant is designed to work as a class to download games, insert achievements, and much more. It is a very limited Chatbot experience at the present time, but Microsoft has great ambitions to convert this coilot to games into something that can help you guide you via games.
- Microsoft smart application control works only if you clean Windows. Microsoft highlighted the Windows feature last week I didn’t even realize its existence. Decomposition of smart application control applications On your computer for a database for reliable and harmful applications, similar to the anti -virus program. I went to enable the feature on my computer, but it says, “If the smart application control cannot be turned on without reinstalling Windows.” This is a disgrace, because Microsoft says that controlling smart applications is more light than traditional antivirus software.
- You can now access chat messages in Microsoft teams when they are presented at meetings. If you want to reach the difference messages while sharing your screen at a meeting, then Microsoft has This added to the Teams app for Windows and Mac. A small chat window appears on your screen only you can see, allowing you to respond to chat messages or monitor conversations that occur during the team meeting.
- 13 -inch Surface Lower Surface: Less slightly less. My colleague Antonio J. De Bandeto Microsoft smaller laptop It found that to a large extent a smaller version of the surface laptop 7. It is a shame that the camera does not support Windows hello hello to recognize the face, but this smaller surface laptop computer has a great battery life and a very good keyboard.
- Windows 11 gets some improvements that affect HDR. Microsoft introduces a monthly update to Windows 11 that includes some Important updates to support HDR in the operating system. Updates allow you to keep HDR disables via the entire Windows, but still HDR video flow. You can also switch or turn off Dolby Vision support. There is still a lot that I would like to see Microsoft and Application developers are fully supporting HDR in Windows, but this at least solve some of my pain points.
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