{"id":84435,"date":"2015-12-14T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=84435"},"modified":"2015-12-14T07:58:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T05:58:31","slug":"windows-7-and-8-1-now-support-the-xbox-one-wireless-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/84435-windows-7-and-8-1-now-support-the-xbox-one-wireless-controller","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 and 8.1 now support the Xbox One Wireless Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can understand the need for Windows 10 to support a whole new graphics API like <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/directx\/archive\/2014\/03\/20\/directx-12.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">DirectX 12<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/82676-want-a-wireless-xbox-one-pc-controller-youll-need-windows-10.html\" target=\"_blank\">to use an Xbox One wireless controller as well<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense that Microsoft needs to incentivise purchasing or opting in for your free installation of Windows 10, but we can&#8217;t imagine Xbox One wireless controller support convincing anyone to migrate \u2013 after all, Windows 7 and 8.1 supported the controller through the use of the power cable.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is clearly aware that wireless controller support, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-ZA\/xbox-one\/accessories\/controllers\/windows-10-wireless-adapter\" target=\"_blank\">wireless adapter<\/a>, is doing nothing but annoy gamers, so they&#8217;re introducing it to Windows 7 and 8.1.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In addition to Windows 10, starting today Xbox Wireless Adapter now supports Windows 7 &amp; 8.1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f4NMTw9PhN\">https:\/\/t.co\/f4NMTw9PhN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K4rFPM2ktm\">pic.twitter.com\/K4rFPM2ktm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Larry Hryb, Gamer Emeritus \ud83d\udcf1\u2328\ufe0f\ud83d\uddb1\ufe0f\ud83c\udfae (@majornelson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/majornelson\/status\/675012608248913920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really that simple.<\/p>\n<p>You can pick up the Wireless Adapter for <strong>R370<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/raru.co.za\/electronics\/3166947-microsoft-xbox-wireless-adapter-for-windows-xbox-one\" target=\"_blank\">Raru<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/84421-christmas-retail-gaming-specials-this-week.html\">Christmas retail gaming specials this week<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/84399-msi-gaming-laptops-with-new-nvidia-gtx965m-graphics-onboard.html\">MSI gaming laptops with new NVIDIA GTX965M graphics onboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/84389-fallout-4-patch-1-2-performs-visual-downgrade-to-improve-frame-rate.html\">Fallout 4 Patch 1.2 performs visual downgrade to improve frame rate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It makes sense that Microsoft needs to incentivise purchasing or opting in for your free installation of Windows 10, but we can&#8217;t imagine Xbox One wireless controller support convincing anyone to migrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":84437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[91,1969,15397,13009,3960,10124,16679,10065],"class_list":["post-84435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-microsoft","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-8-1","tag-wireless-controller","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}