I wonder if freeing up those resources also implies that much of the adware Microsoft often includes in Windows might be removed too.
if it’s not: I’m skeptical that the gain in resources would be enough.
if it is: I’m skeptical that this OS won’t be locked down as much as possible to prevent it to be used for anything useful beyond this specific gaming usecase and/or specific to pre-authorized devices.
I think Microsoft benefits too much from the adware they add to Windows to allow this new version of the OS to potentially be used as an alternative.
I’m sure they will have ads in the Xbox launcher because why wouldn’t Microsoft.
But it does look like it essentially kills all the graphical and backend items of windows for single loading this UI from the videos, and then boots up the extra items when requested for the full OS.
I would actually be worried it won’t properly kill them swapping back and then you lose the gains until a reboot.
I really want this to be a low margin device they sell meant to boost gamepads subscriptions and it ends up being easy to modify or control cause I would literally reward them with the subscription for that.
If only they can resist being Microsoft.
The video from LTT made it look like when you launch this game mode or Xbox mode or whatever (like on the Deck, where you can still exit to the desktop), and lots of non-essential processes just get stopped automatically. After you’re done, those processes would start again. So nothing is really removed, just put on hold while you’re gaming, and there’s no separate OS version.
I wonder if freeing up those resources also implies that much of the adware Microsoft often includes in Windows might be removed too.
if it’s not: I’m skeptical that the gain in resources would be enough.
if it is: I’m skeptical that this OS won’t be locked down as much as possible to prevent it to be used for anything useful beyond this specific gaming usecase and/or specific to pre-authorized devices.
I think Microsoft benefits too much from the adware they add to Windows to allow this new version of the OS to potentially be used as an alternative.
I’m sure they will have ads in the Xbox launcher because why wouldn’t Microsoft.
But it does look like it essentially kills all the graphical and backend items of windows for single loading this UI from the videos, and then boots up the extra items when requested for the full OS.
I would actually be worried it won’t properly kill them swapping back and then you lose the gains until a reboot.
I really want this to be a low margin device they sell meant to boost gamepads subscriptions and it ends up being easy to modify or control cause I would literally reward them with the subscription for that.
If only they can resist being Microsoft.
The video from LTT made it look like when you launch this game mode or Xbox mode or whatever (like on the Deck, where you can still exit to the desktop), and lots of non-essential processes just get stopped automatically. After you’re done, those processes would start again. So nothing is really removed, just put on hold while you’re gaming, and there’s no separate OS version.