Xbox 360 System Update Is Now Available For Download

October 16, 2012 - Jason Dunning

Late last night, Microsoft released a brand new system update for the Xbox 360. The biggest changes you’ll see are a revamped dashboard, Internet Explorer usage, and Pinning. Overall the update should only take you a couple of minutes to download and install, so you won’t miss out on too much gaming time.

Here’s the full list of changes with this update:

Refreshed Xbox 360 Dashboard

We’ve updated the UI with a few things, including an updated layout with more tiles, a combined TV & Movies channel and, in the US, a Sports destination.

Internet Explorer for Xbox

With Internet Explorer on Xbox, you can easily find and view internet content on the biggest screen in the house, including HTML5 videos.

Recommendations and Ratings

Recommendations will allow you to discover new favorites, generated based on a number of variables including the content you previously viewed, what your friends are consuming and what is most relevant and popular with our Xbox community. You can now rate content yourself and also see Rotten Tomatoes ratings.

Pinning

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 favorite movie and clicking “pin.”

Xbox Video

Formerly called Zune Video Marketplace, Xbox Video offers hundreds of thousands of TV shows and movies for buying or renting in instant HD streaming.

Recent

Previously called Quick Play, the Recent view gives you a list of movies, games, apps or other types of content that you most recently accessed on the console.

Enhanced Search

The last Xbox LIVE update brought Bing voice search to Xbox so you could use voice to search for movies, TV shows, actors, directors and artists. This year we added genre search to the list, so now you can search for action, comedy, romance, drama or sci-fi. Bing voice search now includes results for video across the Web, including YouTube.

International Expansion of Voice Search

We’ve expanded our Kinect voice search capabilities to 9 new countries – Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Ireland.

Source: Major Nelson

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  • Hayden GLunt

    This update is taking forever and basically wont let me download it!!! Any suggestions if people are having the same problems?

  • Jordan Alduin

    So it’s been about a week and still haven’t got the update. Any suggestions?

    • Kevin Wolf

      No suggestion. Do you live in the US? Might be taking longer to broadcast the update internationally.

  • Timothy Zimmer

    Yes. It’s true. I agree with Jason you just have to wait a little while but it will appear.

  • jqm78

    I still have the old one, and I am not being prompted to update…. I even tried disconnecting and connecting and nothing…. must not be up….

    • http://trendygamers.com/ Jason Dunning

      It does take a little while for it to appear for everyone but I already have it on my Xbox.