Xbox One Update: November 2014


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Xbox One November System Update: New TV, Personalization and SmartGlass features now in Preview

We?re bringing you new and exciting ways to watch TV and interact with the Xbox Live gaming community in this month?s Xbox One system update preview. Today, we will begin rolling out a ton of new features to some members of the Xbox One preview program. We?ve got the full breakdown of features listed for you right here:



Show Who You Are ? Some of the most requested features being released this month include the ability to customize your Xbox One background and showcase and share some of your favorite achievements and game clips.

Custom Backgrounds ? The #1 fan-requested feature is making its initial debut for preview members. For the first time, each account on your Xbox One can have a customized background. You can choose a custom color or achievement art as your background on Xbox One, with more customization options coming down the road.

Gamer Profile ? You can now share your location and bio as part of your profile. You can set these options on your Xbox One console and use Xbox One SmartGlass to browse to other people?s profiles and check out their showcase items. Additionally, you can now select a set of showcase items that are displayed when other gamers look at your profile on an Xbox One console. You can use Xbox One SmartGlass or Xbox One console to add or remove up to six game clips or achievements that will be displayed in a carousel format.

Tweet about your Favorite Game Clips ? You can now share your favorite Xbox One game clips with your followers on Twitter. Use the Share button on any game clip you have created and select Twitter to compose the Tweet.

A New Way to Watch TV ? With new Live TV and Twitter integration, you can discover new shows to love and see what people are saying on Twitter about shows in real-time.

Live TV Trending ? Starting today for preview members in the U.S., Canada and the UK, a new tab will be available in OneGuide that displays the top 20 most watched TV shows, with the list filtered down to the shows that are currently available to you based on your OneGuide settings. The Live TV Trending list is updated by the minute, so you can easily discover shows that are popular with other viewers. The Trending tab in OneGuide is updated to display Twitter ? Live TV trending first and Xbox ? Live TV Trending second. You can tune to a specific show by pressing the A button.

Twitter TV Trending ? New this month in preview, you can see what Live TV is trending based on the highest number of tweets. Twitter TV Trending will initially be available to preview members in the U.S.
Xbox TV Trending ? The Trending tab in OneGuide is updated to display Twitter trending first and Xbox ? Live TV Trending second. Xbox ? Live TV Trending is based on the number of Xbox One owners currently watching that show in each country, pulled from anonymous data collected at a national level.

Tweets in MiniGuide ? See the actual tweets for the Live TV shows in real time and quickly find the Twitter #hashtag to join the conversation.

Recents and Favorites in MiniGuide ? MiniGuide has been updated to include your favorite TV channels in a combined Recents and Favorites area and MiniGuide can now be activated via voice by saying ?Xbox Select ? MiniGuide? while watching TV.


Store improvements and SmartGlass updates ? We are also excited to roll out these cool features:
Store improvements ? The Store pages on Xbox One have been improved to enable you to more quickly browse and find content. The navigation buttons were moved to the far left so you can find them easier. You can also more quickly find game add-ons, perform store specific searches and recommendations are more prominently displayed. Finally, store categories have been standardized so you can easily see the top items in each query at a glance.

Friends? Game Activity on SmartGlass ? You can now see a list of your friends that have played a given game within the Xbox One SmartGlass experience.

Games with Gold & Deals with Gold on SmartGlass ? For gamers with an Xbox Live Gold subscription, you can browse ?Free Games with Gold? and discounted content with Gold and initiate download of the content to your Xbox One console from your mobile device.

SmartGlass Store Improvements ? We added a new section for Apps to make it easier to find and download apps for your Xbox One, as well as adding a Coming Soon filter for Games and Add Ons to make it easier to see upcoming Xbox One releases sorted by anticipated release date.

Internet Explorer updates ? There are a few improvements Internet Explorer available this month:
Snap IE ? From the Address Bar in Internet Explorer, you can now easily snap from a full screen experience and move Internet Explorer into snap mode.

Featured sites ? Now, Internet Explorer will show a number when something is newly-added to featured sites. Newly-added sites will also display a badge until you launch them or seven days have passed since the site was added to the Featured list.

Updates to the Preview dashboard app ? We?re gamifying the Preview dashboard. Here are some new features we are adding:
My Stats ? If you are in the Preview program, you will now earn points for providing feedback, including points for completing Quests, Surveys, Quick Poll questions, and rating the update. These will be shared in the Preview dashboard under My Stats. The more points you get, the more you level up, and the more rewards you?ll earn. Keep checking back for special bonus point opportunities.

Leaderboard ? We?re also adding a leaderboard that shows how you stack up against your friends based on the points you have earned. If you don?t have friends in the Preview program, we?ll show how you stack up against others in the program. Keep checking back ? more things are coming to the My Stats page soon.

System Update, Xbox One By Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson

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How is Microsoft doing it? If only they did the same for windows phone.

 

There's no middle men between MS and the XB1 owners, so they can push out updates when they want.  No 3rd party OEMs (phone makers) to worry about hardware wise, and most of all, no cellphone carriers to block things.   Otherwise you'd see updates to WP way more often, those on the preview get updates pretty quick, not once a month though but yeah, it's a bit different in that case because there's not just one phone model to test against.

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There's no middle men between MS and the XB1 owners, so they can push out updates when they want.  No 3rd party OEMs (phone makers) to worry about hardware wise, and most of all, no cellphone carriers to block things.   Otherwise you'd see updates to WP way more often, those on the preview get updates pretty quick, not once a month though but yeah, it's a bit different in that case because there's not just one phone model to test against.

As I mentioned in the comments this is really not the case. They have figured out a clever way to bypass the carriers with the beta program, The thing is why is Microsoft sitting it out when they really should be evolving WinPhone at breakneck speed. What's stopping them? 

 

EDIT: Its funny that DevDiv and Azure is faster than the winphone division. Those guys are pushing enterprise level updates faster than consumer ones :)

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Wow... Microsoft really has the pedal to the metal right now...

 

I thought the One changed drastically from launch to the TitanFall release...

 

The One that I turn on now, and the One from release seem like 2 different animals...

 

When the One launched it seemed like a wounded animal out the box....

 

The One as of now has evolved into a beast, that's only getting stronger...

 

Kudos Microsoft, please keep the party going...

 

Hopefully Voice messages make a return sometime soon...

 

Maybe it's just me, but Kinect seems to get better with some of these updates.  Microsoft must improve the camera and not mention it, because most don't want to hear about it...

 

Microsoft, should add this feature, when idle on the dashboard for 3-5min... The tile become transparent so that the themes can bee seen...  Basically a screen saver like feature...

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As I mentioned in the comments this is really not the case. They have figured out a clever way to bypass the carriers with the beta program, The thing is why is Microsoft sitting it out when they really should be evolving WinPhone at breakneck speed. What's stopping them? 

 

EDIT: Its funny that DevDiv and Azure is faster than the winphone division. Those guys are pushing enterprise level updates faster than consumer ones :)

 

The preview only bypasses the carriers blocking things, MS still has to build and test updates for lots of different phones unless you want them to brick yours in the rush to release something?   It's really not an apples to oranges comparison between WP and XB1,  if all we had was one type of WP device then sure, I'm betting it'd be updates more often, but that's just not the case.  It's another factor that adds to the schedule, update 1 never hit my HTC 8X till a month after other preview users already had it because of issues with the HTC phones, some bug that had to get worked out. 

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As I mentioned in the comments this is really not the case. They have figured out a clever way to bypass the carriers with the beta program, The thing is why is Microsoft sitting it out when they really should be evolving WinPhone at breakneck speed. What's stopping them? 

 

EDIT: Its funny that DevDiv and Azure is faster than the winphone division. Those guys are pushing enterprise level updates faster than consumer ones :)

 

You're forgetting that there's still a wide number of phones that needs drivers and custom stuff.

 

in addition, carriers can block updates(and have and still do) in addition phones are a bit special as everything you add to them needs to be certified. 

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Guys, I'm not talking about kernel level updates. They sure would break a ton of things . I'm talking about feature updates . Like a mobile data on/off toggle.

Organizing the settings pane, Attaching documents to emails ,Language support etc.; 

 

The whole point of an OS is making these changes transparent for the devs.They don't break compatibility (or brick phones) as you think.

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Changing a single thing, even minor and only visually, requires a surprising amount of QnA test all across the os in seemingly and obviously unrelated areas. An OS is not a modular home project.

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Guys, I'm not talking about kernel level updates. They sure would break a ton of things . I'm talking about feature updates . Like a mobile data on/off toggle.

Organizing the settings pane, Attaching documents to emails ,Language support etc.; 

 

The whole point of an OS is making these changes transparent for the devs.They don't break compatibility (or brick phones) as you think.

They have continued to push WP updates to the preview program such as update 1 for 8.1. The pace is not as fast as the X1, but then those two platforms are not exactly the same to make the comparison equal.

But I think MS feels exactly like you do, they want faster, more frequent, updates. That is a clear goal for Win 10. Win 10 will be pushed to the X1 and WP as a single os (meaning a more mature set of api that are as capable on a phone or xbox s they are on the pc) sharing a single store for developers. Each platform will get a tailored UI, but the underlying os will remain the same, allowing for more rapid updates across all platforms at once.

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My Xbox appears to have updated over night without waiting for me to start it up and click ok on the its time to upgrade screen for once.

 

Unfortunately, the smartglass beta app on my windows tablet hasn't updated and isn't aware of the showcase or offline purchases it seems so I can't finish those quests. And the one guide twitter quest I just had to blank the ratings and answer no since I don't use it, being as my Xbox is up in the home theater room and I only have one satellite tuner, and its in the downstairs living room.

 

Has smartglass updated for anyone else? The auto update in 8.1 makes it harder to see when it last updated and such.

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If you want to use a custom background rather than a game achievement pic, you can do this using the Mediaplayer app, heres how to do it.

 

  1. Connect a USB to console / Connect a source through DLNA
  2. Launch Media Player (either directly or through Settings>My Xbox > My background > Custom image)
  3. Navigate to source of your choosing (USB/DLNA)
  4. Navigate to folder/file of your choosing
  5. Select the jpg/png image ? see it full screen.
  6. Once you are viewing the image full screen, hit the menu button.
  7. Select ?Set as background?
  8. You will be sent back to the full screen view of the image. Hit nexus, see the image on Home.

http://majornelson.com/2014/10/22/heres-make-xbox-one-background/

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They have continued to push WP updates to the preview program such as update 1 for 8.1. The pace is not as fast as the X1, but then those two platforms are not exactly the same to make the comparison equal.

But I think MS feels exactly like you do, they want faster, more frequent, updates. That is a clear goal for Win 10. Win 10 will be pushed to the X1 and WP as a single os (meaning a more mature set of api that are as capable on a phone or xbox s they are on the pc) sharing a single store for developers. Each platform will get a tailored UI, but the underlying os will remain the same, allowing for more rapid updates across all platforms at once.

 

In the USofA... The carriers have all power... Which sucks....That's why I try to stick to ROM's (if on Android) or preview programs (Microsoft)...

 

It just lets me get around the red tape.

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