News - New Xbox Dashboard on December 6th

[HEXUS]

Microsoft prepares to right its wrongs and replace the existing Dashboard.

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[cheesemp]

Personally I don't like the Metro UI so very disappointed that Microsoft seem determined to steam roller it on to everything. Wish Balmer would realise they won't beat apple by 'being' apple (as in 100% unified) but by giving users choice...

[crossy]

The new interface certainly appears easier to navigate, what do you think?

Not keen on the look - personally I had no problems navigating the current one, although I'd be the first to admit that they did take to "hiding" some of the more useful features.

Not convinced by the Kinect integration - sure fine for movies and music (notice that the guy in the video was basically saying "ooh, isn't this great - your XBox media centre also plays games!") but can't really see the benefit over the normal controller if you want to - for example - slam in Gears for a quick blast. Unless they've removed the requirement to put the disk into the system for validation, in which case I'll take that back - it's a great step forward.

While I'm dissing the Kinect stuff - I'll just remind folks that the Kinect itself takes some time to "warm up", so if you're hell bent on using that interface then you've got to wait (a minute or two) while that pulls off the blinkers and gets going.

Already noticed some major integration with Win7/WP7 in the music store (first time I looked at that at the weekend) where it says you can only download the videos to those devices, (presumably because they're in some horrible DRM-stuffed WMV).