Will be interesting to see whether and how the purported improvements in terms of efficiency and standby life will find their way into mainline Windows. A lot of issues people like myself have with current day Windows can be traced back to intentional decisions which they could have gone back on at any stage in the last decade.

Changing settings between updates against users wishes, dark patterns, (re)installing what on any other OS would be considered adware, launching Recall without even the most basic security measures initially showcasing a lack of care, standby being at most a suggestion considering how often my work laptop burns up the inside of my backpack, everything connected with OneDrive...

None of this should require an outsiders perspective or an extensive reworking of what Windows is to fix, just a willingness to do the bare minimum. Will keep my eyes open for changes that can be traced back to these efforts, but fear that besides a potential improved game mode, most of this "trimming-of-the-fat" will remain with the Xbox version of Windows. Alternatively, bad habits take over again and they introduce the aforementioned issues into the Xbox version, rather than learning to remove that stuff from Vanilla Windows.

What makes this any different Than the previous handhelds that mostly flopped?

Am I the only noticing the OG Sidewinder gamepad in the design?