Microsoft will take one of its few best-sellers and put it on Xbox Game Pass right from the start, giving a potential "discount" of $60 to subscribers. Perhaps the bean counters are seeing long-term dollar signs over short-term sales.
To boost security for its users, Microsoft has disabled SMB1 and Guest Signing protocol by default, securing billions of Windows 11 24H2 PCs as it would not allow access to unsecured NAS devices, prompting the respective manufacturers to enable it.