Today sees the launch of Microsoft's New Xbox Experience, and having just completed the installation thought I would write a few words about it. Like most updates, you simply follow the on screen instructions when you first sign into Xbox Live; from here it takes approximately three minutes for the installation to be completed. And what a radical overhaul it is. The first aspect you will notice is that you no longer have a small picture attached to your gamertag as you did previously. Now you construct your own animated avatar, in a step that reminds me of the Mii on Nintendo's Wii console. Here you build a small mini version of you. Likewise, all you friends are presented like this, so when you check to see who is online, you will scroll through to see their own personalised animated avatar.
 
The presentation is also radically different with different themes available; from colour schemes to game themes which includes Halo and PGR and is a big change to the previously bland appearance of the last dashboard. Also the manner in which you navigate the dashboard has been changed to a system that now resembles the moving windows that is seen in the Microsoft Vista operating system with the options now smoother to navigate.
 
For further information on the New Xbox Experience, clickety click here;
http://www.xbox.com/en-gb/live/nxe/