Microsoft and Asus have just announced two ROG Xbox ally devices that include a new full screen Xbox experience for handhelds. After promising to connect “Best Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds earlier this year, Microsoft is now just revealing how this Xbox app, the Game Bar, and Windows itself is improving itself to compete with Stamus.
Microsoft needs to respond to Stamus since the Steam Deck launched three years ago, and it has been tweeting its Xbox App and Xbox Bar on Windows to make both handhelds friendly. But there was always a large amount of Windows, and we are starting to see parts of it today.
“The fact is that we have made tremendous progress in the past two years, and this is really the device that has developed these teams and tried to march and work towards the moment we are really excited to put the players in the hands of the players,” with the Gaming Device, with the Gaming Device, with the Gaming Device, the Gaming Device, with the Xbox in the Xbox. Stuffy.
The Xbox Elx has its own Xbox Customs Boat screen that takes you directly to the Xbox app on Windows. Photo: Microsoft
Microsoft showed this handheld friendly combination of Windows and Xbox at a briefing earlier this week, but it was a virtual demo so we have not yet been able to try it fully. All of this begins with the launcher of your PC Games as well as booting the Xbox app and the Game Bar on the ROG Xbox Eli devices.
The Vice President of Experiments in the Xbox explains Jason Beymont, “We were able to carry people who have been working on the Xbox OS for 20 years or more and forcing them to work directly at the Windows Code Base and look like this forming system as the element of this form.” “Both of these things jointly create us a group of features.”
The Xbox Phil Screen experience is very high, which is the compact mode of the Xbox app, which, instead of familiar Windows Desktop and Task Bar, has full control over the ROG Xbox Eli devices. “When the player boots in a full -screen experience, there is a full bunch of windows equipment that is not packed,” says Beaumont. “We’re not loading a desktop wallpaper, task bar, or a group of processes that are really manufactured around the productive scenario for Windows.”
Full Screen Xbox Experience on Xbox Allied X. Photo: Microsoft
You can still get out of this full screen format and launch a complete version of the Windows Desktop, but as a default it will hide. “We have reduced a lot of information and popups, and we will continue to listen to the opinion of the players to improve,” says Sonz.
In Phil Screen mode, the Xbox app itself is very similar that is still on Windows, except that the library is now full of all your PC games and also from other stores, along with the Xboxplay and Game Pass. Where it really gets interesting is the game bar.
“We have improved the game bar over the past year, and it was actually moving towards the device,” says Briana Poton, Principal Software Engineering, Engineering Engineering, in the Xbox. The Xbox brings a short press game bar interface on the Xbox buttons on Eli Device, and you can use it to access device settings such as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, ASUS ‘Command Center interface, and even Microsoft’s new gaming capilot. If you press the Xbox button long then you will also find another handheld friendly task switcher, which allows you to allow the Alt+tab between apps and sports using the controller.
The new library includes access to PC Games from Steam and others. Photo: Microsoft
The game bar allows you to access the device’s settings and quickly navigate. Photo: Microsoft
I will need to fully try this new interface here to get a real sense for Windows changes, but Microsoft is promising that it is not just lipstick on Windows. “These are not surface changes, we have made significant improvements,” Poton says. “We have returned to about 2 GB of memory games in Windows with some of our initial tests with these ingredients, which, in a full -screen experience.”
This is a good step to improve Windows performance on handhelds, but a large piece of feedback around the handheld experience is a sleep situation where Windows -powered devices often use battery life.
Poton claims, “If you are booting your device in a full -screen experience and you are down and you are sleeping, it draws a third of the useless power draw if it is booting the same device in the (Windows) desktop experience.” Microsoft is still focused on battery life and power performance for this full screen format, so we can see more improvement before the equipment ship this year. Microsoft has also improved the Windows Lock screen, so now you can use a controller to login to use the PIN code, or roam this part of Windows.
This handheld friendly task switcher gives you a jump between apps and sports. Photo: Microsoft
This latest Xbox app will now work as the launcher of all your PC Games, but you will still be able to discuss this full screen handheld experience freely with Windows Apps and these other launchers. Sonz says Microsoft is working together with the well -known store front to improve his entire screen experience, “so that everyone makes it easier to play the full library of steam, epic games and elsewhere.
Sonz says “The gaming library collected inside the Xbox on the PC will be available for all Windows 11 devices,” so you will soon be able to see all your steam games inside any PC on any PC.
The Microsoft Valve Steam Deck is also creating its own version of the certified program, which allows you to see which games are better for handhelds like Xbox Eli and Xbox Elx. You can’t thank the Xbox Cloud Gaming or Remote Play on your full Xbox Console Library on handhelds, but most do not play console games.
The best part of all these windows changes is that you will not need a new tool to take advantage of them. Sonz says, “The Xbox Phil screen experience will first come to the Rogue Xbox ally and the Rogue Xbox Elite, and our next focus will update the Rogue Eli and the Rogue ally X in the market.” “Similar full -screen Xbox experiments will reach other Windows Handhelds starting next year.”
Valve is also supporting stamo on the path ally, so we should soon be able to compare the valve and Microsoft handheld operating system on the same hardware. We do not yet know whether Microsoft has done enough to prevent other PC makers from being tempted to lure stamus like Lenovo, but Microsoft’s efforts are really setting a war between Windows and Linux for the future of handheld gaming PC.
