New Xbox One dashboard and backward compatibility coming in November

A new Guide, accessed by pushing left or double-tapping your Xbox button, will let you use many popular functions. Ybarra also confirmed that gamers still enjoying the Xbox 360 will be able to play multiplayer with their friends on the Xbox One, as long as both people own the backwards compatible game in question.

The Xbox One also serves as a set-top box for streaming entertainment, so the revamped OneGuide will highlight trending live TV shows with the most Xbox viewers, instantly show TV listings in full-screen, and allow for picture-in-picture mode.

“Integrating the speed of Windows 10, the New Xbox One Experience will get you to popular gaming features up to 50 percent faster”, he wrote. The most noteworthy feature in “The New Xbox One Experience” is backwards compatibility, which was first announced at E3 this year.

In an interview with GamesRadar, Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda spoke about Xbox One and the coming months, and how he thinks that Microsoft is going to be dominating “the competition” with its new exclusive titles.

Members of the Xbox Preview update program will receive an invite through an Xbox Live message. And while it can only hope to result in strong sales, early adopters and current Xbox One owners have a lot to look forward to. You can head over to Xbox Wire for a comprehensive overview of all the new features. You’ll now be able to see which posts are trending and follow your friends and games in the Activity Feed. Hopefully the Xbox One update imitates that superb example of redesign.

Microsoft will start with a small group of preview members who’ve given the company frequent feedback. The November update will also introduce a Community section to the Xbox One dashboard that is designed to help gamers join conversations happening in real time in the Xbox community.

We’re optimizing Store to help you quickly find the content you want. Microsoft says the “new and improved Store” will have vertical galleries and intuitive categories to make it easier to sort through the catalog. The latest of these is to make the Xbox One one of the active Windows devices under the Windows 10. Microsoft will release new versions of the software with bug fixes and enhancements to participants overtime.

The new system UI will be rolling out in the Preview Program in the next few weeks.