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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
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Subject: Re: No More Windows/Xbox Franken-Handheld?
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 23:12:17 +1000
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On 3/06/2025 10:04 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Feeling the heat from the success of the handheld Steam Deck gaming
> PC, Microsoft let some leaks out a few months ago that it was working
> on a combined XBox/Windows device that would compete better in some
> undefined way.
> 
> I never understood what the synergy was going to be in such a
> Frankenproduct. And now it seems Microsoft might be giving up on this
> idea anyway, or at least postponing it.
> 
> Looks like it is going back to trying to improve the usability of
> native Windows itself on the handheld form factor. In the early days
> of the Steam Deck a few years ago, it was showing off something called
> “Windows Handheld Mode”, but that never came to production. It looked
> like the idea had been abandoned in favour of this Xbox+Windows hack.
> 
> So it is giving up on one idea that wouldn’t work, to go back to
> another idea that wouldn’t work?? This doesn’t sound like a company
> that has any coherent strategy to compete in this market.
> 
> <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-shelves-first-party-xbox-handheld-to-work-on-windows-11-portable-performance>
> 
Some time ago, don't MS produce a mobile-phone that ran some sort of 
Windows OS.

Are they still about??
-- 
Daniel70