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Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld?

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld?
Date	2025-06-04 12:50 +0000
Organization	the-candyden-of-code
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 00:04 this Tuesday (GMT):
> Feeling the heat from the success of the handheld Steam Deck gaming
> PC, Microsoft let some leaks out a few months ago that it was working
> on a combined XBox/Windows device that would compete better in some
> undefined way.
>
> I never understood what the synergy was going to be in such a
> Frankenproduct. And now it seems Microsoft might be giving up on this
> idea anyway, or at least postponing it.
>
> Looks like it is going back to trying to improve the usability of
> native Windows itself on the handheld form factor. In the early days
> of the Steam Deck a few years ago, it was showing off something called
> “Windows Handheld Mode”, but that never came to production. It looked
> like the idea had been abandoned in favour of this Xbox+Windows hack.
>
> So it is giving up on one idea that wouldn’t work, to go back to
> another idea that wouldn’t work?? This doesn’t sound like a company
> that has any coherent strategy to compete in this market.
>
><https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-shelves-first-party-xbox-handheld-to-work-on-windows-11-portable-performance>


I'd guess that whole thing is a response to the Steam Deck. MS has a
history of jumping between gimmicks and forcing their design philosophy
onto the entire product (see: xbox 360 and kinect, win8 and the tablet
mode stuff, win11 and the godawful ai integration, minecraft)

The whole hybrid idea baffles me even more because there's already a lot
of Xbox integration into Windows in the first place? You can apparently
run Xbox games natively and theres a whole app dedicated to it, which
makes me think the whole hybrid idea is either 1) a marketing ploy to
make it sound better to consumera, and not actually changing anything
or 2) A Windows NT situation where they completely lock down the OS so
the only thing you can do with it is launch games from the Xbox app.
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-03 00:04 +0000
  Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-06-03 23:12 +1000
    Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-06-03 09:19 -0400
      Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-03 20:04 +0000
    Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2025-06-03 15:16 +0100
      Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Jason H <jason_hindle@yahoo.com> - 2025-06-03 19:22 +0000
    Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-06-03 10:41 -0400
    Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-04 23:37 +0000
      Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-05 06:02 +0000
      Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-06-05 10:39 -0400
        Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-06-05 20:08 -0400
          Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-06 01:52 +0000
            Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-06-06 01:39 -0400
              Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-06-06 07:36 -0400
                Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-06-06 12:08 -0400
                Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Zaidy036 <Zaidy036@air.isp.spam> - 2025-06-06 15:49 -0400
                Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-06-06 18:54 -0400
                Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-06-06 16:09 -0700
                Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-06-06 19:14 -0400
                Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-06-06 16:52 -0700
                Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-07 00:58 +0000
                Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-07 00:57 +0000
  Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-06-04 12:50 +0000
  Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-09 00:16 +0000
    Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-06-09 01:20 +0000
      Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-09 01:41 +0000
      Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-06-08 22:05 -0400
        Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-09 03:05 +0000

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