Details of next xbox live update

Surely the Avatar marketplace is going to be unused? I thought they promised they would never charge for clothing either? Hope the free updates still continue.

Other than that looks a good list.
 
For those interested you can sign up to preview this update in a similar way that you signed up for the NXE, just visit Majornelson.com and it guides you through :)
 
For the awardable clothing etc, what happens to all the awards you have already earned. Say you get an cod5 suit for 100k kills or something and you already have 200k, does this mean you will earn this automatically when updated?

Just a thought :rolleyes:
 
The fact you get reconnected to parties straight away is good.Although whenever I get disconnected it always says people have left my party,even it isn't my party to start with,rather than saying I left the party.
 
Sherm said:
For the awardable clothing etc, what happens to all the awards you have already earned. Say you get an cod5 suit for 100k kills or something and you already have 200k, does this mean you will earn this automatically when updated?

Just a thought :rolleyes:
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I don't think any games will be supported until after the update comes out so no games out right now will have any!
 
i just want them to add a region filter, so the games dont have to do it. would make FPSs much better
 
Some more information posted at Xbox Live Operations Blog about improvements to the service.


What we’ve been up to lately? It’s been a pretty crazy couple of months around here. I’ll try not to repeat that too often, as I think I’ve been saying that since I joined Xbox back in 2001. If working in a whirlwind sounds appealing, this is the place you want to be. Of course, the Madden 10 demo released on Xbox Live this morning so it’s true all over again!

A little over a month ago we made some major upgrades to the datacenters that drive Xbox Live. We did a number of different things – some of which I can’t talk about – but it’s been made very clear that there’s interest in what we did, so here’s a few tidbits:

Capacity Upgrades. There’s more than 20 million of you on Xbox Live now, and we need to be prepared for when everyone wants to play the latest and greatest. With killer titles like Halo: ODST and Modern Warfare 2 shipping this fall we know that you’re all going to be online, and probably all at once!

Deploying New/Improved Features. In order to enable the cool new functionality that’s coming – Xbox 360 Games on Demand, Avatar Marketplace, User Ratings, and a lot more to say nothing of speeding up the Guide and Account Recovery – we had to do a lot of heavy lifting. In some cases that’s updating existing bits, but it also meant new services and new hardware.

Adopting New Technology. Why should you care about this? As a customer, you don’t have to – but I know that a number of you are interested so I’m mentioning it. We’ve completed our migration to 64-bit Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. This is a platform that delivers some significant advantages for us, which will help us better serve you.

The across-the-board move to 64-bit alone is a big win. Keeping capacity ahead of demand is a never-ending battle, and easy access to many gigabytes of memory is a blessing when you’re trying to scale. Windows 2008 means IIS 7, Hyper-V, and a whole host of performance improvements under the hood. SQL 2008 delivers all sorts of geeky goodness, but I’ll point specifically at the major performance improvements in replication as a wonderful thing.
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The first wave of Preview Program emails have been sent confirming your acceptance and I believe the download will happen either tonight or tomorrow.
 
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