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Ryuu96 said:

G2ThaUNiT said:

It’s pretty funny how the Xbox division was given the keys to the Windows kingdom

We always heard about how stingy the Windows division was when it came to the Xbox app/Microsoft Store and not letting the Xbox division handle that aspect of Windows, but I’m sure that decision was made when Satya agreed to buy ABK to put this long term plan in motion. Windows is clearly the key to Xbox’s future.

Windows team has been floundering for years, their arrogance is undeserved, Lol. They're lucky that they're an entry route into Microsoft's other huge money makers like Office and Azure. It sounds like Xbox is finally being shown proper respect by the Windows Team and actually working together but that'll happen when Microsoft Gaming becomes a $20bn+ division and matches Windows in revenue, Lmao. Windows is probably still higher in hierarchy than the Microsoft Gaming but at least it seems like they aren't being dicks anymore so...Progress! Lol.

I don't think a few years ago we would have heard about how the Xbox UI/UX is coming to Windows, or the rumours of an Xbox/PC Hybrid or that there's a stripped back Gaming focused Windows coming with a focus on Xbox that cuts out all the extra Windows junk, Lol. Windows of 5-10 years ago would have probably told Xbox to piss off and demand they use full fledge Windows with no strip backs, the Windows Store and probably wouldn't have cared about optimising for Gaming because their mindset is "Enterprise!"

The Xbox team gained credibility 25 years ago when they demonstrated Windows booting up instantly on the OG Xbox, or at-least the Kernel running a custom UI... And Gates was amazed and literally asked them why PC's can't do it.

Since; Windows has been hit or miss, but the Xbox OS team have never dropped the ball, the Xbox One's OS was incredible software engineering that enabled things like backwards compatibility efficiently with multi-tasking, kinect and more in just a few gigabytes of Ram.
Sony had to use an entire extra ARM CPU and extra 256MB DDR3 Ram in the PS4 just to match that.

The Xbox OS Team being involved in optimizing gaming for Windows is only going to be a good thing in my eyes, they have some incredible software engineers that are passionate and know their stuff... And most of all, have proven their worth already.

Now I just want Microsoft to standardize A.I upscaling in Direct X so we can abstract things like FSR, XESS and DLSS so that game developers just target Direct X and then it doesn't matter what GPU you have, the upscaler takes over seamlessly.