Shelly Palmer

Xbox One’s First Major Update Arriving on February 11

When the first component of Xbox One’s spring update arrives on February 11th, it’ll be a few weeks ahead of the first spring flowers sprouting. Like those flowers, much of what’s contained in the February update is under the surface: Kinect voice recognition improvement, tools for developers and “stability and product updates to improve the customer experience” to name a few non-specific bulletpoints. What you’ll actually care about is the stuff you’ll see, which in this case is a battery meter for gamepads (visible on the dashboard) and a reorganized My Games & Apps section. That first component is self-explanatory, but the latter piece requires some detail. First, you can actually see how much space you’ve got left on that 500GB HDD — helpful! Second, the applications are being broken out from games, and can be more incrementally managed.

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