Xbox One's Faster, Simpler Interface is Now Available To Everyone

Microsoft today announced it is releasing a major update to the Xbox One gaming console. The much-awaited update comes with a few new features and improvements such as Beam, the company's livestreaming client that does similar things as Twitch; and a faster and simpler interface. From a report on Engadget: The March update centers around a redesigned interface that's designed for speed above all else. It's quicker to perform more than a few tasks, such as finding a group to join. The revamped Guide should be much quicker, too -- it promises faster access to recent apps, background music controls and game recording. A few tweaks are designed with multitasking in mind, such as a brand new achievement tracker and a Cortana rework that puts the voice assistant into an overlay that won't disrupt what you're doing.

Wow! Are you going to tell me when Steam updates?

[uCallHimDrJ0NES]

Available to EVERYONE? That's amazing. Glad I don't have to buy an Xbox One. Is this perhaps a promotional item rather than news?

Re:Wow! Are you going to tell me when Steam update

[theurge14]

I noted earlier this year that Slashdot has been inundated with Microsoft articles about minor Windows 10 topics, seems to be the case.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Wow! Are you going to tell me when Steam updates?

Yeah, Slashdot has got that covered. [slashdot.org]

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[uCallHimDrJ0NES]

Wow! Are you going to tell me when Steam updates?

Yeah, Slashdot has got that covered. [slashdot.org]

But, that was actually available to everyone, and was about an actual change in customer form factor/platform. Nice try, though, M$ Coward.

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[gravewax]

I am sure when steam actually gets a significant change we will hear about it!

Wireless

[sisterk]

Yes, but does it support WPA/WPA2 enterprise yet?

Yours faithfully, a disgruntled University IT worker.

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[Lumpy]

YES!
Microsoft also released the XboX Pro that will join a domain and the wireless now supports a RADIUS client to connect to corperate wifi.

But they still did not add in any SNMP. so of course the network admin is still raging.

Re: Wireless

[bn-7bc]

Ehm SNMP, well maybe the have a more modern managment api, but probably not, at ,eas wpa2ebterprose and radius is a step in the right direction, and jus a question at the end, how mouch managment does a game console really need?

Remove Advertising

[Luthair]

That would make the interface a lot simpler.

Bitstream Audio

[Ze Wah]

One thing that is good, is the Blu-ray bit stream audio pass through is included in this update.

I trust my amp more than I trust the XBone to make up its mind what speakers to use when transforming a 2/5.1/6.1 to what my speakers are configured as (7.1).
Hopefully it extends to the media player as well.