Xbox 360 2012 Beta Dashboard Review

Lets take a look at the 2012 Beta Dashboard, due out in the fall of 2012 and highly anticipated from opinions so far.

As you may know, people are not really supposed to speak about this, so we have used Tizlar's account to post it, as he and Microsoft aren't exactly pals so its a safe account to discuss on. Here is Tizlar's opinion and lets just say 'impressive'.

[dskvskilz]

nice post, cant wait for the update

[nukeitall]

I can't wait for it either, but I don't have access to my Xbox 360 at the moment. :(

[Dlacy13g]

How can you review a beta? I mean its not final code yet so things may change for good or bad?

Lastly...umm...NDA?

[GaminGuys]

Gives you an insight, the point is, its hardly likely to get worse than the beta, least thats the way it usually goes with bug fixes etc.

[Mustang300C2012]

So you should be screaming your lungs off since Neogaf has been posting discussing so openly since day one.

[Dlacy13g]

Fair enough...Neogaf is a different world anyway. It's this exclusive club that frowns on trolling their forums yet they troll the industry constantly. I have a love / hate relationship with Neogaf much like I do N4G...it can be great and totally infuriating at the same time.

[GaminGuys]

I don't deal with neo anyone man whats the point of the comment?

[Dlacy13g]

@neildee250... I wasnt replying to you...Redhemi brought up Neogaf which I was responding to.

[digitaleraser]

Exactly...you can't review a Beta, it should say "preview."

[GhostHero333]

I still like the first dashboard when you would press the xbox button on the controller and an easy to view menu came from the side.

[Mustang300C2012]

Uh it still does that.

[bobrowski]

uhh nope. the guide pops up in the middle smart one

[Mustang300C2012]

A pop up menu comes up in the middle vs the side. Big whoop where the location of the two is. Your getting more functionality with the "middle" pop up than you are with the "side".

[ALLWRONG]

You see the old dash every time you hit the guide button, just smaller.

[NightMystic]

Shouldn't this be a preview instead of a review?

[Legion]

Semantics at best. They are Reviewing the Beta... not Previewing the actual Dashboard. The difference is that a Preview will have detailed information on known options. While the review of the Beta is simply that, a review of a Beta that might have different options when it comes out of Beta stage.

[Captain Qwark 9]

sounds good but no way it can be a ten if you cant watch videos on the internet explorer. im tired of using the porn machine 3's browser, i would have liked to turn my 360 into a porn machine as well

i automatically knock off a point. 9/10

[Dfooster]

The iPhone doesn't have flash and I've been viewing certain **cough** sites for years on there. Plenty of YouTube-a-like websites to cater to a certain type of gentleman (or lady)

[shutUpAndTakeMyMoney]

youtube apps? ugh..
Also taking away flash is a good way to make sure you can't get free mini games.

[Hufandpuf]

no flash in the browser? What's the point then?

Everything else sounds awesome though

[JBSleek]

HTML is the new standard. Flash themselves are moving away from it to have HTML5.

[TekoIie]

Does the ps3 browser use flash? Just wondering if some of the sites I got to on the ps3 for videos will work on the 360's browser.

[bolbgt]

Because you don't need flash for Youtube, games and flash based sites aren't meant to be controlled with a controller. The only thing you really miss out on is streaming from the sites that don't upload their stuff to Youtube, copyrighted stuff or porn.

[Hufandpuf]

there are a LOT of sites that still use flash.

[dark-hollow]

^^^^^^^^^^^

And neither the wii or ps3 have browsers that aren't complete crap to enjoy the flash content

[bolbgt]

There are a lot of sites that use flash ads. Nobody really uses flash for their core layout anymore. Most flash oriented sites are video sites or games sites and like I said you shouldn't be playing flash games on your TV and YouTube has everything except the illegal stuff or porn.

[ALLWRONG]

Who the hell still uses flash? Why don't we load up Netscape browsers and chat on Compuserve.

[Trenta27]

This whole article is stupid. Oh hey everyone! We want hits on our site so we are going to break the law!

[Trenta27]

And that is nobody will ever take you seriously.

[DarthJay]

I agree that it is dumb to break a Non Disclosure Agreement, but an NDA does not equal law.

If you are going to criticize anything about the article, it should be how amateur it looks. Capitalization is brutal. "microsoft?" Really?

[AngelicIceDiamond]

I really can't wait now. Still can't believe MS did the beta so early though? Probably means it'll get launch in, maybe early October? Either way it sounds like MS has the best version for an internet browser in there console.

[nukeitall]

MS has a history of releasing solid dashboard updates every single time and I expect no less of this one. Looking forward to trying out the browser, but it has to be damn good for me to bother using it.

It's hard to beat the keyboard and mouse. The tablet browser experience is a great except typing in stuff is slow.

[ChunkyLover53]

I'm in the beta, I thought about doing a little article or video of it, but I don't want Microsoft to find out about it. I've been included in every Microsoft beta and I'd like to keep it that way.

Even got my free copy of Halo Reach when I tested the new disk format for them. Internet Explorer works better on the Xbox 360 than it does on my laptop. Cant say enough good things about it.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

That's tite, so can you actually surf anything you absolutely want on the brower?