With the new Windows 11, your computer becomes a console

Little by little, Microsoft's plans for the future of Windows 11 as a game platform are realized. It is not a secret for anyone that the company wishes to extend the Xbox brand beyond the fair, and the new Xbox consoles are a good example of this new philosophy.

According to leaks, the next Xbox consoles will be nothing more than modified Windows 11 computers; Which includes both the successor of the Xbox Series X and the first Xbox portable console, which will probably be A device similar to the steam bridge or the Rog Ally X, running Windows 11 Standard.

However, for these plans to succeed, many changes in Windows 11 are necessary, making it a better system adapted to the needs of players. And Microsoft has just presented one of these changes, A screen keyboard designed to be used with a control command Instead of the mouse.

Remember that Windows 11 already allows you to use an on-screen keyboard, and that it can be very useful in many situations in which we cannot use a physical keyboard, for a reason or another. We can simply start looking for the “keyboard” in the start menu and make the operating system start to always have it. This keyboard on screen He controls with the mouseby pressing the keys we want to introduce, or with other accessories; It also allows access to special characters that can be difficult to find on our keyboard.

With a next Windows 11 update, the ON-Screen keyboard can also Control with a video game command. The great advantage of this is that it allows players to introduce text unrestrained to take the keyboard; For example, if the computer is connected to the TV.

Microsoft himself announced the arrival of the new keyboard with the 22631,5116 version, which is already available for users of the Previous version of Windows 11. Therefore, he should not take long to reach everyone in a future update, although he is not clear if he will arrive in a monthly update, or if we will have to wait for an excellent version in the second semester.

One of the main differences in the new keyboard for controls compared to the classic is in the Vertical alignment of keys. Instead of riding, as on a traditional keyboard, on this keyboard, the keys are arranged on a grill in which they occupy the same space. In this way, it is faster to go from one key to another using the crossroads.

In addition, certain basic functions will now be associated with the different control buttons. For example, the “X” button fulfills the settling key function, while the button “and” allows us to add a space and the LT trigger allows us to go to the digital keyboard. Therefore, it should be easy to get used to it and write quickly in any application or game.