I haven’t even tried Windows on it, but the handheld mode for 11 that was leaked a while back very much feels like Microsoft seeing the success of SteamOS on the Deck and all the x86-based handhelds coning out, and panicking a little.
Which is kinda ironic, because Windows 10 used to have a Tablet Mode, which was coincidentally also a pretty decent interface for a controller, as far as the start menu was concerned, until they removed it.
They had a grand plan for an ecosystem involving windows phones, windows and xbox with the windows store. Which is why windows 8 looked as jank as it did and they did UWP. When mobile got killed they scrapped a lot of it, game pass survived and UWP exists but (I’m hoping at least) not many people give a shit about it.
I haven’t even tried Windows on it, but the handheld mode for 11 that was leaked a while back very much feels like Microsoft seeing the success of SteamOS on the Deck and all the x86-based handhelds coning out, and panicking a little.
Which is kinda ironic, because Windows 10 used to have a Tablet Mode, which was coincidentally also a pretty decent interface for a controller, as far as the start menu was concerned, until they removed it.
They had a grand plan for an ecosystem involving windows phones, windows and xbox with the windows store. Which is why windows 8 looked as jank as it did and they did UWP. When mobile got killed they scrapped a lot of it, game pass survived and UWP exists but (I’m hoping at least) not many people give a shit about it.