Tech giants are finding creative ways to use our data to fight the coronavirus

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Microsoft is starting to unclosed up its xCloud game swarming beta to countries immeasurability Europe. The software mammoth originally launched the xCloud preview in the US, UK, and Korea rearward in September, and it's procuration to Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden.

Anyone in these countries can now sign up for the Android adaptation of xCloud, however Microsoft appears to be taking a fussy formularization to when persons will conclusively get albeit because of the onrushing coronavirus pandemic. "We apperceive gaming is an important way for persons to remain connected, surprisingly during these times of amusing distancing, however we moreover recognize how internet bandwidth has been impacted with tensity on regional networks as podgy volumes of persons responsibly stay home and go online," explains Catherine Gluckstein, johnny of product for Promptitude xCloud.

Microsoft is taking a "measured formularization to help conserve internet access, budding the preview in each bazaar with a limited ruling of persons and count other participants over time." If you're intrigued in signing up for the xCloud preview then registration is now unclosed for the 11 European countries over at Microsoft's xCloud site.

Microsoft is still planning to pelting xCloud other broadly later this year, however Gluckstein did acquaint in an interview with The Verge meanest year that "not all countries where we're previewing will entirely launch" the xCloud service. Microsoft moreover recently started testing xCloud for iPhone and iPad devices, however the hairdo says it has had to tighten and limit testing to a single game "to inherit with App Successfulness policies."