While you can launch games not purchased from Steam in its desktop app, games from the Microsoft Store or PC Game Pass need a little help to work.

Microsoft Store is the most trusted way to download and install apps or games on a Windows PC as the Microsoft team monitors them.

But the company also introduced something else: support for streaming casual games from the Microsoft Store without the need to download or install anything to your computer first.

Until now, it was always possible to disable automatic app updates in the Microsoft Store permanently and without exception.