New 360 Dashboard Leaks, Microsoft demand immediate takedown.

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The delightful chaps at Microsoft's 'anti piracy' department got in touch with us to demand an 'immediate' takedown of material located in this thread. The respective thread contained a link to megaupload which claimed to have a download of the upcoming 360 dashboard with all the new fancy stuff. Obviously MS is pretty ****ed about this and Megaupload has removed the link and we have removed the download link that a poster put up there. Therefore the leak was indeed real and we can confirm that it is of Xbox Live User Interface - Build 7258 as Microsoft's e-mail states.

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That was removed quick, I?m hoping some one manages to install it and make some video:):)

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Hmm that forum doesnt seem to confident its legit, shall be interesting to see if anything comes of it though :)

Mathieulh on Maxconsole has confirmed its real, I personally believe him knowing some of the stuff he has posted on the forum in the past.

Either way it sounds like it won?t be any use to the average 360 owner anyway.

The update is legit, unfortunately it wont get you very far since as far as I know (I may be wrong) the installer's xex requires 2.0.7159.0 minimum on the libraries to install (that is why it fails) so you need this very specific version (or higher) installed first before installing the leaked update, and this one hasn't been leaked.

Good luck.

Finally if you own a debug kit you may try to convert the xex files, patch them and flash them on it but I guess it may require specific kernel imports which are not existing on the currently lastest available debug kernel.

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It'll be on torrent sites soo enough (if it isn't already).

I wouldn't want to use it though, probably a whole host of unpatched bugs. Who knows what damage it could do trying to flash the 360.

Can we run it on Vista or XP?

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Things like this get leaked all the time, but I wouldn't really want to risk installing it as Microsoft can almost certainly detect what firmware you've got (it'll be in any messages sent to LIVE, kind of like how websites know what OS/Browser you're running) so they could just ban you for it, or more likely, refuse support if/when something goes wrong.

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Yay for more speed!

That's probably one of the major reasons why the dash looks the way it does. Microsoft realizes that speed is paramount. :yes:

He mentions it is 19MB on the disk. So they probably haven't grown in size as well (original is 20ish MB I think). It's amazing how optimized that OS is.

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He mentions it is 19MB on the disk. So they probably haven't grown in size as well (original is 20ish MB I think). It's amazing how optimized that OS is.

If I recall correctly, the 360 has something like 16Mb of internal memory for the OS.

I believe it's based on the original Xbox's OS, which in turn is based on Windows 2000, however it does have a lot of hand-written PPC assembley code in it for various reasons.

I'm curious if this interface change is acutally a completely rewritten OS or if it's just a new frontend that fits on the existing one.

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Ricardo Gil

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If I recall correctly, the 360 has something like 16Mb of internal memory for the OS.

I believe it's based on the original Xbox's OS, which in turn is based on Windows 2000, however it does have a lot of hand-written PPC assembley code in it for various reasons.

I'm curious if this interface change is acutally a completely rewritten OS or if it's just a new frontend that fits on the existing one.

I'd say they obviously just created a new shell, since the OS was running just fine.

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