You No Longer Have to Be on Windows 10 to Use the Xbox One Wireless Adapter

Think I'd rather stick with the 360 pad than purchase something 40% more expensive with 0% extra functionality.

Good stuff, I just might be getting one now.

Thank you. People keep telling me to get 10, but I just don't have a reason yet.

Absolute BS it can't work with the 360 adapter. Obviously could've done it but won't because of $$$

Well I'll be using wired until hackers find away around these price gouging fuckers. I paid $150 for an elite control, let me use it on my pc

I always used a 360 controller on my PC but I always hated the toy-like D-pad on it. Can't for the life of me play my favorite Street Fighter series decently, since a simple hado-ken can be such a task.

Has anyone used the D-pad on an Xbox One controller with a Fighting game? Is there any quality invested in it? Because if I judge from the 360 one, I'll steer well off this.

It's too late for me. I already got my Steam controller. It took a little adapting to, but it's nice.

That's good news because i'm still very happy with windows 7 and i don't have any interest in updating to windows 10. Maybe i'll do the windows 10 thing before the free upgrade runs out in july 2016 but as of right now i'm sticking with windows 7.

Has anyone tried this yet? I'm getting an error with the Wireless Adapter on 8.1. The drivers are up to date but it says the device is not configured directly (Code 1). I try troubleshooting but it says the problem isn't fixed. Maybe the adapter is bad?

And no mac support. le sigh... XP

About goddamn time

i love how they hold back every single thing possible, two years later and they make it look like progression, how much more backpeddling will be done until this console is where it should of been out of the box?

Looks like I will be getting an Xbox One Controller after all. Maybe two.

@lonesamurai1: Um you love them cause they decided to hold back a driver for no reason at all? Other than to call it "progress" months later?

Smart move microsoft. I was dead set on buying this but when you dropped the "windows 10 only" bomb i thought to myself "yeah this is a deal breaker,no buy from me". Now ill be more than happy to buy your adapter.

And no one was surprised. Not to mention it worked anyway on 7 and 8.

The only reason why I'm not updating is because they took away windows media center. Well I've heard in the spring that along with the Xbox one DVR update Windows ten will get it too, nonetheless I'm not updating so long is that feature is not included

umm...i always just plug it in.

For as long as Microsoft keep insisting on using proprietary tech, I'll pass on their bullshit.

I use a PS4 Controller because it uses BLUETOOTH! I don't have to buy a bullshit adapter to get it to work..

Eh, cool, but I'm beyond happy with my 360 pad. I like it more than the Xbone pad anyway.

Will this work with the Elite as well?

I didn't think you had to be in the first place.

"Seemingly arbitrary"? "Raising questions that..."

Microsoft has used this type of business practice for decades.

haha Why the sudden change MS?

I still can't used to slightly moving my fingers up to trigger the bumpers without feeling uncomfortable. It's too much work to actually press them like on the 360 and I'll never use this controller and would much rather get the elite and move the bumpers to the bottom triggers.

"Puzzlingly, the adapter's functionality was limited to Windows 10"

Uhhh not really puzzling at all. It was another attempt to force users to update their OS with an arbitrary limitation. MS has been militant about forcing users to upgrade from 7/8.1. That annoying application that constantly reminds you to update, downloading the install data without users knowledge in the background, Shoving it in your face in the windows update menu and even auto clicking the upgrade option in windows update hoping you accidentally forget to unclick one time. Heck I believe they even briefly made it impossible to receive updates for windows 7/8.1 but quickly back peddled.