Can Microsoft Xbox's voice as a remote control win the hearts of Siri lovers?
22.05.12
The big news today is the Xbox 360 update being pushed out to birth an amazing user experience; now your voice is the controller to navigate TV shows, movies, games, music and a plethora of content providers on Xbox Live.
Engadget showed off "Microsoft's new baby" Metro and the revamped interface which did away with "single-file tiles" to a sleeker and snappier "single page Metro layout, packing more than twice as much information on the screen as the previous Dashboard." Kinect motion may allow you to control the Xbox 360 guide, but voice-recognition controls for the new wave of content on the Xbox platform are sweet.
The New York Times noted that with "more than 35 million worldwide subscribers to Xbox Live, making the Xbox one of the most common Internet-connected boxes in living rooms," Microsoft may be in a position to challenge traditional cable boxes. Microsoft cited the numbers as "more than 57 million people worldwide already sitting on a box" updated for free and posted a roll-out schedule for the programming lineup from more than 40 content providers.
Source: Network World