Xbox One slowly becoming windows PC

[mattig89ch he/him]

So I read an article regarding the Xbox One.  The article was concerning microsofts new one store for everything.  How, you could buy games on the win 10 store, you'd have access to those games on your Obox One as well.

 

But I gleaned some interesting insights into the One from that article.  The fact that the operating system the one is running on, is a version of windows 10.  And the fact that the console is using PC processors.

 

Here is the article:http://www.cnet.com/news/the-xbox-is-finally-becoming-a-windows-pc/.

 

Thoughts? Opinions?  Ideas?

[kenod]

I would rather have a normal computer. I haven't used the Xbox One, but I'm not sure you can run normal software on it, or install Linux.

[tobar14 he/him]

I don't like it. What's the point of buying an Xbox, just buy a great computer, hook it up to your TV (chromecast, HDMI, somehow...), get a controller that hooks up to your computer, and boom you have an Xbox.

 

The only reason I bought the xbox one was so I could play Halo, otherwise I would prefer a "Pure" gaming console (PS4).

[king of nowhere]

microsoft is trying to convert everything to windows 10. they are forcing everybody to update to it, and once you have wondows 10, updates happen automatically and you cannot refuse them. in fact, sometimes your pc may reboot to install upgrades while you're in the middle of doing stuff. and it will go on for hours. there is an option somewhere to stop it doing so, but it is not the default setting and you ahve to look for it. in theory, they do it because it will cost less in maintenance, having a single operative system everywhere. which makes sense. what sucks is that, if they want to force everybody to use the same operative system, they should at least make sure that it actually works. The best I can say about windows 10 is that it is an improvement over windows 8. I'd keep windows 7 if I could. or even old windows xp. really, sometimes my pc stops working for half a minute and if i open task manager, i see some host process taking up 90% of my memory capability. I don't want to know why it needs to do it when all other windows versions worked fine with much lower system requirements.

Also, you may be interested to know that windows 10 automatically passes informations on how you use your pc to microsoft. and you can't turn that option off. the best you can is to only send basic telemetry. i don't remember where the option for that is. it is very hidden so most people won't find it, and the default is that everything you do will be sent to microsoft.

 

that's some real heap of crap they are feeding us. I'd switch to linux, if i wasn't too lazy to spend some days trying to figure out how to do it.