All the news of the Xbox update

Microsoft has released an update for Xbox 360 users that includes the Internet Explorer browserAlthough this incorporation had been discussed for a long time, the truth is that until today not much more has been known about the subject, despite the official confirmation without date. The other great novelty is Xbox Music, whose deployment has already begun on Xbox 360.

One of the controversial issues regarding the version of Internet Explorer for Xbox is the lack of filters for content directed at adults This The matter came to the fore based on the statements of a pornography portal that warned about the possibility that minors could access its contents from the console, and Microsoft's response was not long in coming.

Of course the adult stuff will be available through the browser and not as a native Xbox app That matter aside, everything seems to indicate that the performance of the browser is not optimized for the console and is somewhat slow. It also does not have a bookmark import tool.

Update Features

• User interface update, including an updated layout with more tabs, a combined TV and movie channel, and, in USA, a site specializing in sports.
• Internet Explorer for Xbox. To search and view Internet content, including support for HTML5 videos.
• Recommendations and ratings, which allows you to discover new favorites by generating a series of variables that include the content already seen, which our friends are consuming and the most popular of the Xbox community.Now we can also rate the content and see the ratings of the Rotten Tomatoes site.
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• Pinning: functionality that allows you to customize the control panel by saving your favorite movies, TV shows, games, music, videos, and websites. It&39;s as easy as opening a favorite app or movie and clicking pin."
• Xbox Video: Formerly called the Zune Video Marketplace , Xbox Video offers hundreds of thousands of high-definition TV shows and movies, for buy or rent in streaming.
• Recent: Formerly called Quick Play , it offers the recent view of movies, games, applications and other types of content to which you recently accessed.
• Improved Search: Update brings together voice search on Bing, including results for Web video, such as Youtube. It is also possible to search by genre (comedy, drama, action, etc.).
• Internationalization of voice search: Kinect's voice search capabilities have been expanded to 9 more countries, including Spain (Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Spain, Austria and Ireland).
• Xbox SmartGlass will not be available until Windows 8 launches on October 26.

Update deployment

To ensure a stable release, the update is rolling out gradually (don't worry if you haven't seen it yet). Initial rollout will reach approximately three million consoles worldwide, with the remainder over the next two weeks.

Via | Major Nelson, Kotaku