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Microsoft has begun testing changes to the Xbox Home interface. The changes will carry layout and design adjustments, making it easier to find games and programs on the console or navigate to the settings area. The company will be experimenting a lot with the user interface of the consoles in the coming months. Its final version should be expected in 2023.

Yesterday, September 7, Microsoft announced its new Xbox Elite 2 Core controller.

The Xbox Elite 2 Core offers conventional joysticks with adjustable tension, a rubberized rollover grip, and shorter trigger clips. So now the controller is available in white. The Xbox Elite 2 Core has already appeared before in a "merged" video last month. In fact, this is a simplified and more affordable version of the Xbox Elite 2 we know.

This week, Microsoft began rolling out anew system of interactive widgets for Windows 11. While the "old" widgets are mostly static experiences, Microsoft is now adding live animations to them, such as the standard "Weather" widget.

Today, PC Game Pass and the Microsoft Store are becoming much more classic as they add more than 10 PC games that have set the standard for quality for modern FPS and RPG games, including Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake 4, The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard and many more.

Microsoft is developing a smaller and faster Outlook Lite mobile email client for Android. The giant described the application in detail in its the Microsoft 365 roadmap . There, he describes Outlook Lite as "an app for Android that delivers the core benefits of Outlook in a smaller size with high performance for low-end devices on any network."

Subscription Xbox Live Gold expect relatively big changes - in October Microsoft stop including games for Xbox 360 in collections The company has exhausted the stock of goods for this console that can be added to the service.

Share of devices with Windows 11 among users Steam increased by 20% in June, increasing by 1.64% to 21.23%. While Windows 10 is still the most popular OS (71.26% of the total surveyed), the jump could mean that Windows 11 is finally starting to catch on among gamers after becoming available to the general public late last year. This could be because many problematic bugs and unpleasant features were fixed after the release.

Microsoft launches in your browser what looks like a miniversion Pinterest. The browser collections window will soon display a bar of recommended content based on the themes you've saved.

Today, Microsoft has made its Edge browser a little more user-friendly thanks to some improvements to Xbox and PC games. In addition to the main game-oriented homepage and the integration of regular games, Edge also gets Clarity Boost to improve Xbox Cloud Gaming streams and an efficient mode for Edge to take up PC resources while playing. 

Microsoft is gradually closing public access to a number of artificial intelligence-based facial analysis tools, including one that detects a subject's emotions from videos and photos. 

Microsoft is preparing to add mouse and keyboard support to its service Xbox Cloud Gamingwhich broadcasts games Xbox on TVs, PCs, mobile devices, etc. The software giant announced the additions earlier this year, and it is now encouraging game developers to prepare for mouse and keyboard support, as well as some significant improvements with the Xbox Gaming Cloud delay soon. 

An anonymous source sent to the journalist So to Henderson early footage from Overdose - a new game Hideo Kodimi. Henderson did not post the video on the Internet, but retold its contents. 

Organized by testers Raven Software Alliance of workers in the gaming industry recognized at the official level . But Activision Blizzard, which employs all its members, is in no hurry to cooperate with the union. Apparently, this will happen only after the "order from above", when the company will be under the wing of Microsoft. 

Coalition demands from Brussels to prohibit Microsoft from bundling, preinstalling and coercing to use its own services

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