No, the Xbox One Wireless Adapter doesn’t work with Steam Machines or Steam Link

Last week, we got a confirmation from Valve that the Xbox One Wireless Adapter for Windows would enable gamers to use their Xbox One controllers wirelessly on a Steam Link and Steam Machine device. But this isn’t the case.

Valve has corrected its original statement, and it now says that wireless-controller dongle for the Xbox One gamepad will not function with any Steam hardware. But that’s not because Valve doesn’t want to support it. Microsoft is advertising the dongle as only working with Windows 10, and that limitation seems like it is built into the hardware. This means that the Wireless Adapter will not work with Windows 7 or Windows 8 let alone Mac, Linux, or SteamOS, which runs Valve’s Steam Machines and Steam Link.