Microsoft has quietly repurposed the Xbox button on gamepads when used with Windows 11 Insiders: a long press now opens Task View while a short press still launches the Game Bar, and a press-and-hold continues to power down the controller — a small but practical tweak rolling out to Dev and Beta...
Windows Weekly’s latest episode landed like a speedboat through the shallow end of Microsoft’s current strategy pool — equal parts product update, platform pivot, and cultural commentary — and its most consequential thread is simple: Microsoft is barreling hard into on‑device AI, multimodal...
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It is a curious fact of our digital lives that, despite rapid technological progress and the ultra-sophisticated gadgets now in every pocket and office, one of the most basic aspects of user interaction—how we set up and personalize our devices—remains as disjointed, obscure, and inefficient as...
Microsoft’s ongoing transformation of the Xbox brand has reached a surprising new milestone with the latest beta update to the Xbox app for Windows PCs: Steam game integration. In a quiet but symbolic move, Microsoft has begun allowing the Xbox PC app to automatically recognize Steam games in a...
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