TL;DR: Microsoft's new Windows 11-powered PC gaming handhelds, the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X, demonstrate the company can remove bloatware and unnecessary features to optimize performance. By disabling ...

Xbox is turning 25 this year, and Microsoft is celebrating with one of the most exciting updates Windows gamers have been waiting for. Starting in April, Xbox mode will be rolling out to Windows 11 on ...

After years of limited gaming support on Windows 11 ARM devices, Microsoft has officially expanded the Xbox app to be fully available on all ARM-based Windows 11 PCs. That means laptops and tablets ...

It's no secret that Windows 10 is set to reach end-of-life support on October 14, 2025. That doesn't mean that your Windows 10 PC will suddenly stop working; it just means that it will no longer ...

Microsoft has quietly dropped 8th, 9th, and 10th-gen Intel gaming CPUs from its new hardware guidelines for Windows 11 PC manufacturers, but gamers don't need to be too worried. While the company hasn ...

The overall quality of the Windows experience is at a historic low point, due to increasing concerns over AI and feature bloat, and a long list of crippling bugs. With that in mind, many PC gamers are ...

Microsoft is enhancing Windows 11 gaming performance by 2026, introducing the Xbox Fullscreen Experience across all handheld devices to compete with Valve’s Steam Deck. PCWorld reports that ...

TL;DR: Microsoft has developed a custom Windows 11 version, the "Xbox full screen experience," optimized for handheld gaming on the new Xbox Ally and Ally X devices by ASUS. Launching in 2026, this OS ...

When Asus and Microsoft launched the ROG Xbox Ally X last summer, it came with a bespoke controller-driven full-screen interface running on top of Windows 11. The handheld was still running Windows ...

As of December 2024, Windows 11 has achieved a new record, capturing 54.96% of the Windows user base on Steam, an increase of 1.98 percentage points from the previous month. Meanwhile, Windows 10 ...