Archive for November, 2008

XBox 360s around the world update

November 19th, 2008

sjrmayWell folks, there you have it.  The New Xbox Experience, NXE.  If you’ve turned on your Xbox today then you’ll have a nice little update download to your console.

So what are you going to do with it now?  You could do one of these things, which would make a good start.  Setting up a little avatar is good start, here’s mine.  I’ve started copying my games to my Hard Drive too which has cut down on some of the noise from the beastie.

First impressions of the new dashboard are good, it looks really nice, and its really smooth.  I really like the consistency that’s showing up from Zune style menus across all the Microsoft products I use.  The PlayOn content still works really nicely, well at least ESPN does in the UK.  One thing we obviously care about is how the Xbox now performs as an extender, well there doesn’t seem to be any changes on there.

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Surfs Up! Live Wave 3 is comming

November 13th, 2008

I’ve just been reading on Techcrunch and eWeek about the cool new features that are about to come along in Live Wave 3.  Basically it’s the next step in the story of turning Microsofts Software plus Services web technology on.

What we get this time though is what promises to be some hefty integration.  Bringing not only all your Live services together (which till now have frankly been all over the place) but it also allows you to start aggregating your external content, ala Friend Feed.  Mike Arrington on Techcruch has published the reviewers guide with lots of delicious detail, but this is looking good.

Potentially it’s less Walled Garden than most of the other social network sites and it also integrates your email, calendar, well pretty much every darn thing you’ve got.  The interface is also getting a far more consistent make over which is never ever a bad thing.

Reports are it’s due to be turned on this evening.

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