Third, the media experience needs to be “better, more personal, and more social.” Second, there needs to be a simple and easy way to quickly find the content you want. First, it wanted to bring all the forms of entertainment you could want into one convenient setting, including games, music, movies, and sports. Microsoft’s key goal with this redesign is threefold. The update is about to launch in a couple of days, and it’s pretty dang substantial. Now, just over three years later, Microsoft’s planning to give the UI another overhaul. Given that Xbox 360 owners now spend a large part of their time watching TV and video on the Xbox, with Netflix in particular dominating the online time of a lot of users, the improved speed and ease-of-access will be much appreciated.Įager Xbox users will get a chance to experience the new dashboard when beta testing starts this October.Are you curious about what the upcoming Xbox Dashboard update will contain? We’ve got the details, and the changes are massive.īack in 2008, the New Xbox Experience took the 360’s user interface and spun it firmly on its head.
Overall, it's clear that Microsoft is making a push for some continuity between its platforms (Xbox, WP7, and soon, Windows 8), possibly with some integration coming along with it. Observant readers will notice that one of the menu categories is Bing: Microsoft has decided to integrate Bing search with the content of XBL, so users can finally enter a search term like "potato" and see everything potato-related on Live.
The main menu sits at the top of the screen, divided into general categories such as Social, Games, and Music, which can all be easily accessed with voice commands, which Penello says have seen significant improvement in the new update.
The content is now divided into tiles (falling right in line with Windows Phone 7 style) that are designed to be larger and easier to grab while using the Kinect.
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