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Microsoft Wants To Bring "The Best Of Xbox And Windows" To Handheld PCs
Ronald explained that Microsoft aims to bring a console-like experience to handhelds and "make Windows great for gaming" on any device. Microsoft will have more details to share later in the year, Ronald said, adding that the idea is to move away from a Windows desktop setup on handhelds and toward a "gaming-centric" experience.
Microsoft Will Combine Xbox and Windows Experience for Handheld PCs This Year
Jason Ronald, Microsoft's VP of Next Generation, wants to bring "the best of Xbox and Windows together" on existing gaming handheld PCs.
Microsoft Is Racing To Bring The Xbox Experience To PC Gaming Handhelds
Jason Ronald, who has the excellent job title of VP of Next Generation, spoke to The Verge after a roundtable entitled “The Future of Gaming Handhelds,” where he suggested that Microsoft could also create less of a handheld Xbox, but more of a handheld PC offering an Xbox-like experience.
Microsoft to merge Xbox and Windows features for better gaming on handhelds
Speaking to The Verge after the event, Ronald lamented that while the Xbox operating system is "world-class," it is currently locked to the console. He said
Microsoft wants to mash Xbox and PC together for its handheld
Microsoft is at CES 2025 talking about its handheld ambitions, which includes trying to find the middle ground between Xbox and PC.
Microsoft finally wants to make gaming on handhelds less of a chore
Microsoft may be working on an Xbox handheld but it's also promising to improve the gaming experience across all Windows gaming handhelds.
Microsoft is combining ‘the best of Xbox and Windows together’ for handhelds
Microsoft’s VP of ‘Next Generation’ says changes are coming this year.
Microsoft says it will improve handhelds with Xbox experiences
Microsoft says it’s going to be bringing Xbox experiences to PC gaming handhelds, a move that should drastically improve the user experience on these machines. Ever since the first Windows 11 handhelds were released,
Microsoft wants to ditch Windows for future Xbox gaming handhelds
Microsoft is working on new software for gaming handhelds which will “put the player and their library at the center of the experience". And we may not have long to wait, as Microsoft will reportedly share more later this year.
Microsoft is Working on Console-Like Experience For Windows-Based Gaming Handhelds
At CES, Jason Ronald, Microsoft’s new VP of Next Generation teased some important UX changes coming to Windows-based gaming handhelds later this year.
Microsoft is finally fighting back against the rise of SteamOS by overhauling Windows 11 to be better on handhelds
It looks like Microsoft has finally acknowledged that handheld gaming PCs could be better, primarily when it comes to running ...
How to easily run Windows 11 on Steam Deck
The Steam Deck is one of the best portable gaming devices around, despite one major shortcoming: It doesn’t run Windows.
Steam Ate Microsoft's Lunch On PC, It's About To Do The Same On Handhelds
Valve’s handheld device, the Steam Deck, wasn’t the first portable gaming PC ever created, but it is by the far the most successful. And like Steam becoming the de facto way people play PC games in ...