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  • Microsoft Setting Itself Up For Failure?

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Sat Sep 27 04:20:27 2025
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    Looks like the price for the combo Xbox/Windows gaming handheld will
    be up to US$1000 <https://www.theverge.com/report/785828/microsoft-xbox-ally-x-pricing-next-gen-consoles-report>.

    I wonder how this device is going to compete with the Steam Deck.
    Gaming handhelds running Windows are already at a disadvantage to the Linux-based platform, in both UI and performance. If they canrCOt
    compete on price either, then what reason is there left to buy them?

    Seems like we are heading of a rehash of Windows-Phone/Windows-RT-versus-Android all over again, where
    Microsoft somehow assumes that its superior marketing might will win
    the day.

    It didnrCOt then, it wonrCOt now.
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Mon Sep 29 19:22:08 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Sat, 27 Sep 2025 04:20:27 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

    Looks like the price for the combo Xbox/Windows gaming handheld will
    be up to US$1000

    I was wrong -- itrCOs a lie <https://www.theverge.com/news/787072/a-very-microsoft-problem>!

    I assumed that the rCLXboxrCY in the name meant it could play Xbox games.
    Turns out this is wrong! This is strictly a handheld for playing
    Windows games. So it really offers essentially nothing new in
    functionality over a cheaper and better-performing Steam Deck.

    And this while being handicapped by the resource-hogging Windows OS.
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