See Through the PPT World

Xbox 360 has been the most popular video game machine in America. The last year-released Kinect has change the traditional dashboard operating way. Users can operate some contents of the games through gestures and voices. Now, Microsoft has changed Xbox 360 again. This time, Metro has been brought in.
The Xbox 360 dashboard is the most obvious change while not the only change. Microsoft has also added new social function, unified voice search and cloud storage. And the new social function has completely replaced the old My Xbox. Microsoft believes that this new change will bring users experience which is completely different from Sony’s PS3 and Nintendo’s Wii.

512MB cloud storage
The cloud storage could let you visit your Xbox Live from other game platforms. with this, you can download Xbox Live personal data, save games, and even save the game procedure.

New contents partners and TV live broadcast

With the expansion of the entertainment value of Microsoft Xbox360, there have been more and more new partners to join in the Xbox Live service. The America users can visit EPIX, ESPN, Hulu Plus, Netflix, MSNBC’s Today and some other destination websites through their video game machine.

Effective Kinect new functions
The Kinect seems much more useful on the updated system. Only a few sentences can lead a searching in Bing, for example, if you want to watch X Men, you just need say “X Men”, and then Bing will search out all the videos and games about X Men. And then, you can say “Play X Men”, the movie will start playing.

Brand-new social networks
We know Beacons and Facebook make Xbox 360 games much more socialization. You can create Beacons to let your buddies know what you are playing now. In this way, if your buddies are also interested in this game, Beacons will inform you.

New Windows Phone 7 version Xbox companion App
Microsoft provides free Xbox companion App for Windows Phone 7 mobilephones users. Users can control the Xbox 360 host machine to search and watch the TV programs and games contents in Xbox Live through their mobilephones with the help of Finding Content. In addition, with the help of Control and Play, users can remote control Xbox host machine to complete operations like play, pause, forward and backward.

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