So, after a small delay, the new update for the Xbox 360 was released. There are differing opinions on the update. Some people seem to like it and others not so much.
Admittedly, i am a XBL Silver member, so i won't know how things like "cloud saves" work (or how Netflix works post update). i may have missed some smaller details too.
Anyway here i go in no order with random bullet (or is that asterisk) points.
* It seems to take more time to shut down (at least completely power down)
* i wish it wouldn't default on the sign in every time (couldn't we set it up to auto sign in)
* The "Metro UI" itself looks a little better to me (and yes there are adds)
* The NXE seemed to be more vertically oriented, the Metro seems to be more horizontally oriented (at least it seems that way to me).
* Your profile no longer shows your XBL points balance.
* You have to have a gold account to use cloud saves. i wonder if in the future they will charge for additional cloud storage space (i would bet on it).
* It is less "cartoony" than the NXE
* It now gives you a little more information on you achievement progress (or it seems to)
* i like the darker (grey) background better than the NXE background
Voice commands seem to work fairly well (but i don't have an accent). Bing would probably be the least effective as it would have to recognize more words. For controller free naviagtion, it seems to work well enough (i can't comment on how it works within Apps). Some basic commands to know
* "Xbox, x" where X = a word on screen, like play game
* "Xbox, Go Home" - to get back to the first "blade"
* "Next" and "Previous" scroll horizontally through selections
* "Xbox, Bing, X" - use Bing to search. This seems to work ok, but can be a little slow
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