Windows 10: streaming games Xbox One to a PC or tablet

Microsoft plans to the heart of the experience Windows 10 the ability to stream content on Xbox One, and to a desktop or laptop computer, or even a tablet . Phil Spencer, head of the Xbox division at Microsoft, gave a brief demonstration of Forza Horizon 2 running on a Microsoft Surface tablet during the presentation.

If you have an Xbox One game console on your home network, you'll be able to launch applications on a PC or Xbox tablet in Windows 10, connected to the same network, and ability to choose to broadcast directly from the console games with the device you have in your hands.


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This is part of the will of Microsoft to make Windows 10 multi-platform, that is to say, to push an operating system that runs on a wide range of devices, including include smartphones, laptops and tablets - Windows 10 will also be the operating system of choice in future Xbox. In other words, this means that Windows Universal applications will run on one of these devices, including your game console.

Once a console and a Windows 10 device are paired, streaming a game is as simple as clicking on its title in the new Xbox implementation . The functionality obviously works with all devices in Windows 10, and independent of their screen size.

Unfortunately, many questions remain. An Xbox game streaming likely requires the Xbox One full works hand power saving mode. There is also the question of whether all of the user's library will be accessible. If it is possible to buy and download items from Xbox Games Store and save them to the hard drive, what about games on CD?

Expect more answers to these and other questions when Microsoft will reveal more details at its annual conference in March 2015.

Microsoft DirectX 12 also introduced during his event reserved for Windows 10 last night, promising that, among other things, the new graphics technology will use half as much power as DX11, thereby improving the lifetime of the battery when running the games natively on mobile devices.
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