I’m deep in Microsoft (used to work there). I just kicked Office off my system and installed LibreOffice.

Next step is OneDrive, but it’s going to be hard to walk away from due to the amount of storage I have grandfathered in for free.

Oh, you’re right, I think I confused the Play Anywhere as a native install. The “xbox os” is just a streamlined windows os

My understanding was that the xbox rog will actually play native Xbox installs. At least that’s what I think the new “Xbox os” is capable of that will be on it, and eventually other devices.

I totally get what you’re saying, but using steam numbers to judge how active an Xbox game is not fair. Steam isn’t the native player base. It’s far more active on console and still draws solid numbers.
I do agree with the grind being a bit much on the latest, though.

Forza is bread and butter for Microsoft, just like Halo and Gears. They really are shooting themselves in the foot with this. Forza originally got me on Xbox, and to be honest, it is a huge reason I am still on it as my main console.

Gatekeeping gaming brands, are we?

How dare I, a middle-aged person, enjoy Zelda, Mario, Splatoon, Donkey Kong etc.

TlDR

Flix Vision and Live NetTV

Names weren’t mentioned until halfway through the way too long article.