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Microsoft should just release a $149 Software upgrade for Xbox S/X that allows/requires full mouse+keyboard UI and access to Windows store apps (Windows store w
by Factorium 5y ago
Microsoft should just release a $149 Software upgrade for Xbox S/X that allows/requires full mouse+keyboard UI and access to Windows store apps (Windows store would probably need to be cleaned up and properly curated), Edge browser, plus printing support.
Then in a few years they could also release a portable version of the S, with a battery, 15.6" 1080p 75hz screen, and a few hours of battery life. If you reduce the size of the cooling system in the S (possible with 5nm), and have an external PSU, this is definitely possible.
Full Windows is basically overkill for the average consumer.
- pjmlp 5y agoFor that to work they need to decide what they actually want to do with UWP support on XBox.
- WorldMaker 5y agoXbox One/Series already allow mouse+keyboard. (Some games support it. Edge supports it.) Xbox One/Series also just got the upgrade to Chromium Edge. I find it ironic that the complaint in this article about virtualization based security is something that Xbox One has had turned on since the beginning and is a required part of the Xbox platform and game developers just have to perform around it on that platform. (They are assured DRM safety and other things by it in return.) In this case Microsoft is trying to converge Windows to be more like the Xbox rather than the other way around, and it's interesting to see these complaints about it.
- LocalH 5y agoXbox isn't sold so much as a general-purpose system that users have traditionally held the uppermost control over.