Metro Politics: What Xbox’s New Dash Means
“Ch-ch-ch-changes,” sang David Bowie, “Turn and face the strange”. 360 owners around the world switched on their consoles this week to discover that the Xbox experience had indeed ch-ch-ch-changed and turned very strange indeed, as the latest dashboard update rolled out, bringing the Xbox in line with the Metro front-end used by Windows phone. So what’s changed, what works and what has been a terrible error that we’ll grumble about for the next year? Integration is the main driver for most of the changes – and not only the corporate need to enforce consistency across Microsoft’s growing suite of media hardware, but also in the dashboard itself. Since the introduction of Kinect and the addition of services like Sky television and Last.fm, the old dash was becoming a sprawl of conflicting navigation options, with no two sections sticking with the same format. Read more…
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