Revamping the app may also be tied to Microsoft’s eventual rollout of xCloud.

Similarly, managing an Xbox service remotely-so that the Xbox console could be told how to manage games and other settings once it came back online-would be much more useful. It’s far simpler to connect to a cloud-based service like from your own PC. But that’s like establishing a remote desktop connection to log into a remote PC, and using that to check your email. Today, you can use the Xbox app to connect to a remote Xbox console and stream games to your PC, and manage its settings-as long as it’s online and connected. īack to the subject - we’ll share how to remove Xbox Apps from your business workstation that shouldn’t have come with it in the first place.There’s certainly room for the Xbox Console Companion to take on a greater role in Xbox remote management. This is why we advocate that all businesses need managed updates.

In this blog, we have previously said that Microsoft doesn’t even test Windows Updates thoroughly and relies on crowdsourcing for free quality assurance testing.

Microsoft is a trillion-dollar company with many brands, and they can get away with anything. If you’d like to see what we’re talking about, click start and type Xbox to search, it should look like the picture on the right.Īs an IT Company that only supports businesses for over ten years, we ask - why the heck is this stuff installed on every Windows 10 Professional computer? Multi-thousand dollar business workstations bought for business use are coming with Xbox bloatware installed? Specifically, we’re talking about the “Xbox Game Bar”, “Xbox Live”, and “Xbox Console Companion” Apps.

Amazingly, Windows 10 Professional out of the box comes with a bunch of useless consumer-grade Apps.

Xbox console companion app