Your Arm-Based Windows Laptop Is Now An Xbox With Microsoft's PC App Launch

Microsoft is doubling down in a big way with Windows on Arm devices. Now, all Windows 11 machines running running Arm-based silicon, like Qualcomm's forthcoming Snapdragon X2 Elite platform, have support for Xbox Game Pass, with "more than 85%" of the Game Pass catalog claimed to run well. Anti-cheat support x86/x64 emulation is also well underway, with Epic Anti-Cheat compatibility being billed as a key feature for playing games like Fortnite and Gears of War: Reloaded without issue. Considering the usually thin and light and cooler nature of Snapdragon-based laptops, Microsoft's infamous declaration of "every screen an Xbox" now being apt for all Windows 11 PCs is a very good thing.

It's hard not to see this move as a straightforward win for Microsoft and the Xbox brand as whole. Cross-platform support for multiple CPU architectures and instruction sets is impressive indeed, arguably more-so from a ...