Giant 360 Dashboard Update Coming

Microsoft has announced that they will be releasing a giant Xbox 360 update that will enable background downloading, multi-downloads, enhanced control for video/music/DVD, better XBLM organization and Vision integration. It will also allow you to choose whether you want to boot to the dashboard or whatever's in your disc drive when you start the system. The download will be free fast and available to anyone with Xbox Live. Those without XBL will have to wait until the 2nd batch of 360 games come around that will have the update embedded in them.

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