Xbox 360 Dashboard Upgrade Hitting with Internet Explorer at Last!
Smartglass dated too...
Microsoft's Xbox 360 salesman supreme Lawrence "Larry" Hryb (aka Major Nelson for some reason) has burst forth with a date for Microsoft's "Smart Glass" as well as data relating to the latest Xbox 360 update.
First up, "Smart Glass" - this is the app that is not made of glass at all actually. According to Lazza, "That’s coming... but not until Windows 8 launches on October 26th. When the Xbox SmartGlass app launches on tablets, PCs and smartphones, it will include key foundational experiences for interacting with your Xbox 360, such as dashboard and app navigation and Internet Explorer control, like text input, scrolling and pinch and zoom."
(We're giving the Larrymeister a prize for most enormous blob of utterly hideous use of English with, "key foundational experiences for interacting with your Xbox 360" by the way.)
In terms of the Xbox 360 update the biggest of big deals is..
Internet Explorer for Xbox. Basically, YES! A browser that can handle HTML 5 video finally in Xbox 360.
Pinning. Eh? The Major explains, "Pinning lets you personalize the dashboard by saving your favorite movies, TV shows, games, music, videos and websites right to the home screen. It’s as easy as opening an app or a favourite movie and clicking 'pin'.
Xbox Video, yup Zune Video Marketplace gets renamed.
Quick Play is renamed to "Recent".
More info here.
First up, "Smart Glass" - this is the app that is not made of glass at all actually. According to Lazza, "That’s coming... but not until Windows 8 launches on October 26th. When the Xbox SmartGlass app launches on tablets, PCs and smartphones, it will include key foundational experiences for interacting with your Xbox 360, such as dashboard and app navigation and Internet Explorer control, like text input, scrolling and pinch and zoom."
(We're giving the Larrymeister a prize for most enormous blob of utterly hideous use of English with, "key foundational experiences for interacting with your Xbox 360" by the way.)
In terms of the Xbox 360 update the biggest of big deals is..
Internet Explorer for Xbox. Basically, YES! A browser that can handle HTML 5 video finally in Xbox 360.
Pinning. Eh? The Major explains, "Pinning lets you personalize the dashboard by saving your favorite movies, TV shows, games, music, videos and websites right to the home screen. It’s as easy as opening an app or a favourite movie and clicking 'pin'.
Xbox Video, yup Zune Video Marketplace gets renamed.
Quick Play is renamed to "Recent".
More info here.
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