• Thought For The Week

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Fri Apr 17 00:08:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    From <https://www.theverge.com/tech/913093/microsoft-new-xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-memo-notepad>:

    It will be interesting to see what impact Sharma has on Project
    Helix, Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox console. The next Xbox will play
    PC games and “lead in performance,” but it’s still a mystery how
    Microsoft will tackle the interface for Project Helix, especially
    if Windows is running at the core. If Microsoft is leaning toward
    its Xbox PC app to help with Project Helix, then it has a lot of
    work ahead to match the fluidity of its existing Xbox consoles.

    The Xbox Ally handhelds shipped with an Xbox PC app that felt like
    a beta experience. While it has improved in recent months, it
    still feels like it was designed with a mouse and keyboard in mind
    rather than a controller. Former Xbox chief Phil Spencer admitted
    in 2018 that Microsoft had “a ton of work to do on Windows” for PC
    gamers, and I’d argue that eight years later that’s still the
    case.

    Eight years where little or nothing has improved -- think about that.
    It took less time than that to create Microsoft Windows from scratch
    in the first place.

    Meanwhile, Valve’s Linux-based SteamOS is leading the way in a
    completely different direction ...
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