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Windows 11's Steam Deck-Ish, Streamlined Xbox Gaming UI Comes to All PCs in April
Xbox Mode brings a controller-optimized, full-screen Xbox interface to Windows 11 PCs, enhancing game load times with Advanced Shader Delivery, Microsoft announced at GDC.
- Starting next month, Microsoft will roll out Xbox mode to Windows 11 PCs in select markets including the US, renaming its full-screen Xbox UI for laptops, desktops, and tablets.
- Microsoft isn't waiting for Helix, pushing Windows gamers toward Xbox now rather than waiting for Project Helix, which Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced last week with dev kits arriving next year and alpha in 2027.
- At GDC, Microsoft detailed developer-facing updates such as opening Advanced Shader Delivery to all Xbox Store developers to speed loads and adding Zstandard compression and a Game Asset Conditional Library to DirectStorage.
- Xbox mode makes desktops become an Xbox home screen showing Xbox Game Pass and PC games, offering a controller‑optimized full‑screen UI that disables Start menu and taskbar to save RAM and energy.
- As Microsoft marks its 25th anniversary later this year, it says it will roll out the full-screen Xbox UI to Windows 11 PCs, after offering the preview since last November on the Asus ROG Xbox Ally handheld.
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Windows 11 "Xbox Mode" UI coming to all PCs in April
The Windows full-screen experience, now called "Xbox Mode," will exit beta next month in select territories. The new interface, which enables users to launch PC games and other apps using only a controller, debuted last year on the Asus ROG Xbox Ally and will soon be available on all Windows...Read Entire Article
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