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@windows_central
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921subscribers
+30 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001496797324 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @windows_central |
| Created | Between 1 June 2019 and 30 September 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 18 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 11 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 18 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/windows_central |
Gaming — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 19 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2026, 09:46 | 921 | +2 |
| 10 Oct 2026, 12:54 | 919 | +1 |
| 30 Sept 2026, 11:36 | 918 | +15 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 18:57 | 903 | +5 |
| 8 Sept 2026, 11:02 | 898 | -2 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 06:35 | 900 | +1 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 07:37 | 899 | +2 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 00:45 | 897 | +7 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 12:37 | 890 | -1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 01:04 | 891 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 15:25 | 891 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 3 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
CEO of company that printed money with GTA 6 digital pre-orders shockingly says "discs don't make sense" https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/ceo-of-company-that-printed-money-with-gta-6-digital-pre-orders-shockingly-says-discs-dont-make-sense
A new survey shows the scale of Xbox's fall vs. PlayStation and Nintendo in the U.S. — and the scale of the opportunity https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/a-new-survey-shows-the-scale-of-xboxs-fall-vs-playstation-and-the-scale-of-asha-sharmas-opportunity
Linux users finally get a real Copilot app, and Microsoft didn't even make it https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-copilot/linux-users-finally-get-a-real-copilot-app-and-microsoft-didnt-even-make-it
We warned you prices would skyrocket; now Seagate Xbox Expansion Cards are out of stock or over $300 — but these ones are still available https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/storage/we-warned-you-prices-would-skyrocket-now-seagate-xbox-expansion-cards-are-out-of-stock-or-over-usd300-but-these-ones-are-still-available
Lucky PC builder beats the graphics card price rises and snags an NVIDIA RTX for just $5 and leaves the rest of us jealous as hell https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/lucky-pc-builder-beats-the-graphics-card-price-rises-and-snags-an-nvidia-rtx-for-just-usd5-and-leaves-the-rest-of-us-jealous-as-hell
Netflix will be showing us more about GTA 6 real soon, and no, that's not a joke https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/netflix-will-be-showing-us-more-about-gta-6-real-soon-and-no-thats-not-a-joke
I never thought I'd call a Razer gaming keyboard a bargain, but the wired Huntsman V3 Pro is a steal right now https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/razer/huntsman-v3-pro-is-a-steal-right-now
Microsoft filings suggest "around 70%" of its AI revenue is concentrated entirely on OpenAI — which seems rather unhealthy https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-filings-suggest-around-70-percent-of-its-ai-revenue-is-concentrated-entirely-on-openai
Halo Studios is the latest Xbox Games Studio to be hit by layoffs just days after Campaign Evolved launch, as reports reveal "troubled" development https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/halo/halo-studios-is-the-latest-xbox-games-studio-to-be-hit-by-layoffs-just-days-after-campaign-evolved-launch-as-reports-reveal-troubled-development
Xbox has made some amazing special edition consoles over the last 25 years, so which one is your favorite? https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-has-made-some-amazing-special-edition-consoles-over-the-last-25-years-so-which-one-is-your-favorite
This cult indie action-RPG series has always intrigued me, and now that the first game is free on Steam while the sequel is leaving early access, it's time I give it a shot https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/moonlighter-2-leaving-early-access-september
I can't wait to use this new Outlook feature to rearrange my schedule https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/i-cant-wait-to-use-this-new-outlook-feature-to-rearrange-my-schedule
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @windows_central. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 12 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 18 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Windows Central” (@windows_central), 921 subscribers as measured 18 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/windows_central.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.