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Microsoft has rolled the Xbox PC app out to Arm-based Windows 11 machines, a pragmatic milestone that shifts many Arm laptops and handhelds from “streaming-first” curiosities to devices capable of local Game Pass installs and true offline play—while leaving important caveats about...

Microsoft’s move to bring the official Xbox app to Arm-based Windows 11 machines is the clearest sign yet that the company intends to make Windows on Arm a first-class gaming platform — not merely a power-efficient curiosity — but the reality for players will be shaped as much by emulator...

Windows 95’s quarter‑century anniversary resurfaced an unlikely piece of nostalgia: a packaged Electron app that boots the original OS — complete with WordPad, FreeCell, Calculator and Media Player — on modern Windows 10/11, macOS, and Linux systems, letting you play era‑classic games such as...

The short version: despite repeated listings and enthusiast articles that treat Fight Night as a downloadable PC title, EA never released the modern Fight Night trilogy as a native Windows PC game — the last entry, Fight Night Champion, was a PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 release and only reached...

Microsoft's latest push to broaden and accelerate the Windows gaming story on Arm represents a clear inflection point: the company is not merely tinkering at the edges, but actively changing the platform stack — from emulator capabilities and anti-cheat to graphics delivery and the Xbox app — to...

Talkatone doesn’t offer a native desktop client — but you can run Talkatone on Windows or macOS today by using a mainstream Android emulator, or you can pick a native web-first alternative (Google Voice or a desktop-first app) if you want a cleaner, lower-risk desktop experience. This guide...

The write-ups and download pages now appearing for “ES File Explorer for PC” are misleading: there is no verified, official native Windows build of ES File Explorer — what’s being promoted as a “PC version” is either the Android app run inside an emulator or third‑party repackages, and using...

If you want InShot on a Windows 11 PC, the short, accurate answer is blunt but useful: there is no official native InShot app for Windows 11 — you can run the mobile InShot through an Android emulator or the Windows Subsystem for Android (community methods), but for most creators a native...

Wanting to play Pokémon Sun and Moon on a PC isn’t unusual — the games remain among the most praised titles of the 3DS era — but getting them running on Windows 7/8/10 or macOS requires careful choices, legal discipline, and realistic expectations about performance and online functionality...

Gran Turismo fans who want to play Gran Turismo 7 on a Windows PC today have two practical routes: stream the PS5/PS4 game to your PC using Sony’s Remote Play (or PlayStation’s PC streaming options), or use emulation to run older PlayStation-era Gran Turismo titles — a compromise until (and...

If you still have a box of old floppies or a stack of CD‑ROMs in the attic, you can bring those DOS and Windows‑3.x classics back to life on a modern Windows 11 PC — but not the way you did in 1992. The practical route today is emulation: install a modern DOS emulator, mount your original media...

Five years of quiet polish have turned a RetroArch core into a standalone DOS emulation player: DOSBox Pure Unleashed is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, packaging Psyraven’s user-friendly DOSBox Pure experience into a compact, focused desktop app with its own UI, archival game...

Microsoft’s timing is deliberate: with Windows 10’s end-of-support deadline looming, Redmond is using the upgrade window to reposition Copilot+ PCs — and in particular Arm-powered machines such as the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 — as not just optional refresh buys but a strategic...

Valve is closing the book on native 32‑bit Windows support for Steam: starting January 1, 2026, the Steam client will no longer be supported on 32‑bit versions of Windows, a move that Valve says affects roughly 0.01% of users but carries outsized implications for legacy machines, embedded...

Steam will stop supporting Windows 32‑bit installations on January 1, 2026, a move that, if confirmed and implemented as reported, will leave the vanishingly small number of users still running Windows 10 in its 32‑bit form without client updates, security fixes, or official Steam Support help —...

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 7 arrives as a tidy, well-engineered Copilot+ laptop that clearly hits the brief for battery life, build quality, and on-device AI acceleration — yet the real-world experience described by some owners and reviewers exposes a stubborn seam between polished hardware and...

Microsoft’s design reset for Windows 10 — long-rumored as Project NEON — was always pitched as more than a fresh coat of paint: it was meant to be the visual glue that would finally make the Universal Windows Platform feel truly uniform across PCs, tablets and phones. That plan surfaced publicly...

Windows 3.0’s arrival in 1990 was less a single product launch than a change in the way millions of people thought about personal computing — and yes, the tiny game of Solitaire bundled with it played a surprisingly large role in that cultural shift. Background / Overview Windows 3.0 launched...

Nearly half a century after those first keystrokes on primitive terminals, Microsoft has made public the assembly-language source for its 6502-targeted BASIC interpreter — a compact, remarkable artifact of early microcomputer engineering that is now available on GitHub under a permissive MIT...

Is there any way to continue using old computers with Windows on them? I have got a really old computer that is suitable for Windows 98 and a computer that's got Windows 7 hardward and one that's got Windows 10. I keep being told that they are outdate and I am not intelligent enough to get them...