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Your XBox One is Getting a Lot Faster Today (Nov 12, 2015) - by Tom Warren/ Entertainment/ Gaming/ Microsoft/ Tech/ The Verge/ theverge.com
"I've used an Xbox One daily since its release nearly two years ago. It's been a painful experience. You'll usually find me shouting at my Kinect to make it understand my English accent, or swearing profusely after the friends app randomly refreshes and loses my place as I'm scrolling. I get particularly angry (sorry neighbors) when the party app crashes for the fifth time in a day. It's easy to blame Windows 8, the operating system that has powered the Xbox One for two years, but the problems run much deeper.
Microsoft picked a weird app model for the Xbox One which meant things like viewing a friends list required you to open a separate app. It has been slow, cumbersome, and buggy for the past two years. Thankfully, Microsoft has learned from its mistakes and it has a fix: make the Xbox One more like the Xbox 360.
An update will roll out to Xbox One consoles worldwide today that brings a new dashboard experience, a focus on speed, and the ability to play 104 old Xbox 360 games. Backwards compatibility is a hugely impressive feat in and of itself, but Microsoft is also replicating the work it did with the Xbox 360 guide, and giving it an overhaul for the new Xbox One. Instead of launching separate friends, party, and messages apps, there's a single guide that is always available if you double-tap the Xbox button on a controller..."
Richard
"I've used an Xbox One daily since its release nearly two years ago. It's been a painful experience. You'll usually find me shouting at my Kinect to make it understand my English accent, or swearing profusely after the friends app randomly refreshes and loses my place as I'm scrolling. I get particularly angry (sorry neighbors) when the party app crashes for the fifth time in a day. It's easy to blame Windows 8, the operating system that has powered the Xbox One for two years, but the problems run much deeper.
Microsoft picked a weird app model for the Xbox One which meant things like viewing a friends list required you to open a separate app. It has been slow, cumbersome, and buggy for the past two years. Thankfully, Microsoft has learned from its mistakes and it has a fix: make the Xbox One more like the Xbox 360.
An update will roll out to Xbox One consoles worldwide today that brings a new dashboard experience, a focus on speed, and the ability to play 104 old Xbox 360 games. Backwards compatibility is a hugely impressive feat in and of itself, but Microsoft is also replicating the work it did with the Xbox 360 guide, and giving it an overhaul for the new Xbox One. Instead of launching separate friends, party, and messages apps, there's a single guide that is always available if you double-tap the Xbox button on a controller..."
Richard
