The Xcloud integration is great. I like to play strategy games and not having to download every new title to my small ssd will be a welcome option.
As far as Windows 11 goes, I think Iâll take a âWait and seeâ approach on most of my PCâs. 
Microsoft Store - bring your own commerce engine or use ours - model is very promising.
Can easily see Epic and Steam store catalog being a part of this with their own installers.
TPM 2.0⌠
If they block the installation of Windows 11 because of this⌠it will be a terrible mistake. 
https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1408101708216078337?s=20
The PC health check seems to be broken to me. I just checked if my Surface Pro 4 can be upgraded and it is telling me no, even though the specs check out as far as I can see.
Without TPM it wonât be able to authenticate the bootloader which is required for secure boot.
This is already present in most computers, and has been around for 10 years. People have to enable Secure Boot through the BIOS, and re-run the upgrade checker application.
As long as you have a 64 bit processor, you are ok.
I am still dumb struck at the brilliance of the new store policy. This has to be an industry first.
For apps in the store:
- 0% if they choose to use their own commerce and download infra
- 12% (?) if they choose to use the Microsoft commerce and download infra
Soon Steam and Epic Store will be available to download from Windows Store. They just want some market share in windows app stores. But itâs going to a nightmare for security audits.
I just want to know how they improve the store for consumers subscribed to Xbox Game Pass. Theyâve shown their xCloud integration which I think is great. Theyâve shown some redesign of the store which I think is fine.
But Iâm looking at the deeper issues here. Control over your files, decent CDNâs, optional preservation of local save files. We didnât get any information on that, sadly.
Atleast they are going to support win32 apps which they have confirmed.
I think they would be ready with background audits. The have the Defender app integrated into the OS anyway. They could simply make the SmartScreen and Defender infrastructure run on apps listed â in the background. Not too taxing for a one time task.
Yeah itâs going to be an automated process similar to Google Play Protect and not like Appleâs app store.
They are supporting win32, uwp, and pwa apps. There will be more information on the cdns - which is expected to be similar to Steamâs cdn for downloading games.
There is a developer presentation later, if you are interested.
Yeah Steam has a great CDN peering technology. I remember Linus demonstrating this thing few years ago by hosting a CDN of his own for his other PCs to download really fast via his gigabit switch.
Theyâve supported Win32 for a while now, no? Or does this mean they wonât perform inside a âcontainerâ from now on?
Yeah I donât think itâs going to be sandboxed anymore.
Linus makes interesting videos, but has had a lot of hit and miss takes in the last one or two years.
Anyway - For a long time, due to limited adoption by devs using the Windows Store, I think they did not upgrade that backend tech too much. It seems, now their attention has been shifted to the Store properly. They are approaching this much more holistically.
They have already started terming it commerce engine (cdn+payment) . Once MS creates fancy names for platforms, they are already prepared with their own infra and have the necessary integration plans already.
That would solve most of the problems.