Xbox 360 Spring Update - Dashboard improvements

Xbox 360 Spring Update - Dashboard improvements

In this issue of 360Zine, we've talked exclusively to Robin Burrowes, Microsoft's Xbox Live product manager for the UK and Ireland, about all things Xbox Live, and in particular about the Xbox 360's major dashboard update. He tells us more about the update and how it will enhance the Xbox Live playing experience, as well as talking about other new initiatives like the new handheld input device. That's not all though as he gives Microsoft's strongest commitment yet to getting the Video Marketplace launched in Europe - in 2007! You can read all the interview highlights in the issue and listen to the whole 30 minute interview from within the pages of the magazine itself!
Click here to read our Xbox Live Dashboard Update interview! Robin Burrowes, Xbox Live Product Manager for UK and Ireland, reveals the major Xbox 360 Spring dashboard update. Let’s kick off with your role at Microsoft...?.
Primarily my role is really to make sure that the UK and Ireland are contributing subscribers and that members are enjoying playing against each other. I am also involved with communicating any service developments and this is quite timely because the Spring update comes out overnight between May 7th and 8th. We do two of these major updates every year just to make sure people’s experience is optimised. Will the update require you to be connected to Xbox Live?
You do have to be connected to the Xbox Live service but when you connect your console at the appropriate time then it will automatically update for you. Xbox Live is all about the community and this seems to have been the key thought with the Windows Live Community Messenger integration (or MSN as it used to be known) with the Xbox 360. Maybe you could explain how this works?
This has been an area we have wanted to explore for quite some time. My own background is that I used to work over at MSN, and the Xbox Live community really is the biggest social networking audience through the television. We have six million members using the service as the main source of connectivity... and in the world of Messenger you are looking at around one hundred and twenty million. We wanted to make sure that they can now connect with each other. Click here to continue reading the exclusive Xbox Live interview now! 360Zine is a full, free to download magazine dedicated to Xbox 360 gaming. This issue includes over 30 pages of games, all written by UK games journalists. In this issue, we have a massive review of the RTS classic Command and Conquer: Tiberium Wars - will it be all we have been hoping for? In Previews, we've got exclusive looks at Mass Effect and The Club, plus a huge preview of Half-Life 2: Orange Box. We've also been talking exclusively to Football Manager developer Miles Jacobson, and Microsoft's Robin Burrowes about the major Xbox 360 dashboard update. All this plus reviews of Tetris, Guitar Hero and many others, gaming news, your questions answered and much much more. Simply click to download and you will get the complete magazine with all the Xbox 360 games previews and reviews included.