windows handhelds

Microsoft has flipped the switch on a console-style, controller-first interface for Windows gaming hardware: the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) is now generally available on Windows 11 handhelds and is rolling out in preview to other PC form factors through the Insider programs, bringing a...

Microsoft and ASUS have delivered a genuinely ambitious take on a handheld Windows 11 gaming PC with the ROG Xbox ALLY X — a device that wears Xbox branding and a controller-first layout, yet behaves like a full Windows machine under the hood, promising “Xbox, anywhere” with PC-level flexibility...

Microsoft’s Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) will change how Windows handhelds behave: starting November 21, 2025 Microsoft is rolling out a controller‑first, console‑style shell that can boot directly into the Xbox PC app, trim desktop overhead, and present a thumb-friendly launcher on...

Microsoft’s push to make Windows handhelds behave more like consoles took a major step forward this week as the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) — the controller‑first, console‑style shell that debuted on the ROG Xbox Ally family — is now rolling out to a wider set of Windows 11 handhelds...

Microsoft has started rolling out the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) to every Windows-based handheld device, a console-style shell that boots directly into the Xbox PC app and deliberately avoids loading much of the usual Windows 11 desktop environment to free resources for games. The staged...

Microsoft has rolled out the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) to Windows 11 handhelds and opened a preview of the same console-style environment to more PC form factors through the Windows and Xbox Insider programs, delivering a controller-first, immersive way to play that boots directly into...

Xbox Full Screen Experience (XFSE) is finally moving beyond the Ally family and into a broader wave of Windows handhelds — and for owners of devices like the ROG Ally, MSI Claw, Lenovo Legion series and similar machines this changes how a handheld boots, runs games, and manages background...

Microsoft's move to make Windows handheld gaming more "Xbox-like" is no cosmetic tweak — it's a deliberate reshaping of the Windows session on pocketable devices that flips the Xbox PC app into a console-style, controller-first home and gives Game Pass and cloud play a far more prominent pathway...

Microsoft’s Xbox Full Screen Experience has shed its limited‑run tag: starting November 21, 2025 the console‑style, controller‑first shell that shipped with the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally family is being made available across compatible Windows 11 handhelds, expanding from a vendor‑specific novelty into...

Microsoft’s console-style Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11 handhelds is out of preview and rolling more broadly to Windows handhelds today, bringing a controller-first, Xbox-led full-screen shell to supported devices and giving handheld gamers an opt‑in path to boot directly into the...

Microsoft’s Xbox-branded, console-style Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows handheld gaming PCs has moved out of its narrow OEM-only role and into broad availability for current Windows handhelds, giving devices from ASUS, MSI, Lenovo and others an officially supported way to boot into a...

Microsoft’s new Xbox “Full Screen Experience” (FSE) has crystallized a simple but powerful idea: you don’t need a separate operating system to deliver a console-like, controller-first experience — you can layer a full-screen shell on top of Windows 11 and selectively suppress desktop subsystems...

Microsoft's Xbox Full Screen Experience is rolling out to every Windows-based handheld starting November 21, 2025, bringing a console-style, controller-first launcher to devices beyond the ROG Xbox Ally family and offering a new way to boot, navigate, and play without landing on the traditional...

Microsoft’s console-style Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) has moved beyond a single OEM experiment and is now rolling out to a broad set of Windows handheld gaming PCs — but the reality is more nuanced than headline statements that “every Windows handheld” received it today. The update...

Microsoft’s Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) is arriving on a broader set of Windows handhelds sooner than some OEM timelines suggested, with owners of devices such as the Lenovo Legion Go 2 already seeing previews and other handhelds moving into staged rollouts via the Windows Insider channel...

Microsoft’s Full Screen Experience will begin appearing on a wider set of Windows handhelds on November 21, 2025, converting supported devices into a controller‑first, console‑style environment that boots straight into the Xbox PC app and intentionally bypasses the traditional Windows desktop...

Microsoft’s quiet November cumulative for Windows 11 — shipped as KB5068861 and tied to the 25H2 enablement branch — includes small, targeted gaming fixes that have outsize importance for the growing category of Windows gaming handhelds. The update explicitly addresses the most persistent...

The ROG Xbox Ally family is not simply a new portable console or another gaming mini‑PC — it’s a deliberate hybrid that tries to be both, marrying ASUS ROG hardware with Microsoft’s Xbox front end on a full Windows 11 platform to deliver a controller‑first handheld that still behaves like a PC...

Microsoft’s November cumulative for Windows 11 quietly closes a cluster of irritating regressions that were more than mere nuisances — they could measurably chip away at system performance and handheld battery life if left unpatched. The patch addresses a particularly embarrassing Task Manager...

Microsoft’s new Xbox Full Screen Experience for Windows 11 handhelds is no longer a marketing tease locked to a single device — it can be enabled today on many modern Windows 11 handhelds, and ambitious owners are already doing so to get a console‑style, controller‑first launcher and a...