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Microsoft has rolled the Xbox Full Screen Experience out to every Windows 11 handheld currently in the market, turning the console-inspired dashboard that first shipped on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally into a broadly available, controller-first shell for portable Windows gaming PCs. Background...

Microsoft has begun previewing the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) on a wider range of Windows 11 devices — not just handhelds — turning the Xbox PC app into an optional, console‑style, controller‑first shell for laptops, desktops, and tablets in the Windows Insider program. Background /...

Microsoft has quietly taken a major step toward making Windows handhelds feel and behave more like consoles by expanding the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) beyond ASUS’ ROG Xbox Ally line and rolling it out to a wide class of Windows 11 handhelds — with a staged preview now available to...

Microsoft’s Xbox “Full Screen Experience” (FSE) — the controller‑first, console‑style shell that debuted on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handhelds — is now shipping broadly to Windows handhelds and is entering preview on laptops, desktops and tablets through the Windows Insider and Xbox Insider...

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 is bringing the Xbox Full Screen Experience — a controller-first, console-style shell that trims background services and centralizes games from multiple storefronts — to Windows 11 laptops, desktops, and tablets as a preview for Windows Insiders, while continuing the broader rollout...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider preview — Build 26220.7271 (KB5070307) — brings a mix of practical recovery tooling, controller‑first gaming polish, and usability tweaks that aim to reduce friction for both everyday users and IT pros, while also continuing Microsoft’s staged, device‑gated...

Microsoft has quietly flipped the switch: the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) is now rolling out to all Windows-based handheld gaming consoles, giving portable Windows PCs a fast, console-like startup into the Xbox PC app and a stripped-down system mode designed to reduce Windows overhead and...

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 has begun turning a console-style experience into a standard option on Windows handhelds, rolling the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) out beyond the ROG Xbox Ally family and into a wider class of Windows 11 handheld devices — a move that promises a cleaner, controller-first launcher...

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 has begun rolling the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) out beyond the Asus ROG Xbox Ally family, making the console‑style, controller‑first UI available across Windows handhelds in market as part of a broader Windows 11 push — an expansion Microsoft announced during its Xbox Partner...

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 begun testing the Xbox full screen experience (FSE) broadly across Windows 11 devices, moving the console‑style, controller‑first shell Microsoft developed for the ROG Xbox Ally into a wider preview that can be enabled on many Windows handhelds—and, with third‑party tools, even on...

Microsoft’s long-promised, controller‑first Xbox Full Screen Experience is now rolling out to a wider set of Windows 11 handhelds, finally giving non‑Ally owners an officially supported way to boot into a console‑style launcher that trims desktop overhead, frees memory, and prioritizes...

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 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 console-style Xbox Full Screen Experience — the controller-first, fullscreen Xbox PC app session originally built into the ROG Xbox Ally handhelds — can now be run on ordinary Windows 11 desktops and laptops by using a community tool that automates the hidden enablement steps, but...

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...