A new experience has come to Xbox One console owners, bringing Windows 10 to the user interface experience of gamers. The release of the Xbox One update started rolling out last November 12, and is going through some more updates and fixes in the following days to come.
Arriving with Windows 10 is the opportunity for developers to start bringing write-once, run anywhere "universal apps" for the flat screen. This has been seen as a move by Microsoft to attract more developers for its mobile platform, which has seen difficulty in properly taking off, reports International Business Times.
Looking at the new update for the Xbox One, the first thing users will notice is the new interface design. The experience is nothing like the horizontal scrolling of the Windows 8 style interface. The new interface is actually pretty much like the Windows 10 Xbox app in terms of navigation, scrolling and pinned content. However, the new update still keeps a quarter of the screen dedicated to advertising, according to AnandTech.
There is an apparent improvement in the new OneGuide, coming up more quickly and is now designed to be much easier to use. But the most important feature of Windows 10 in Xbox One is the ability to stream Xbox games into other devices running on Windows 10. The Xbox website lines up more capabilities such as social sharing, chats and new multiplayer capabilities.
The update brings a lot of Microsoft apps into the Xbox one console as well, but whether gamers would even bother using Xbox One to run mobile apps is something yet to be observed. Steve Kleynhams, analyst at Gartner, notes that there are apps that make sense running across all those platforms, but it's not everything.
Microsoft is still planning to expand the extension of Windows Mobile 10 to Xbox One to convince more people to switch to the company's mobile operating system, but analysts have yet to predict what those moves will be.
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