Microsoft is tinkering with Xbox One’s dashboard again, and has announced a number of upcoming tweaks designed to deliver a more streamlined user interface and “a faster Home experience”. As part of these changes, voice assistant Cortana will soon be getting the chop.
The goal of Microsoft’s ongoing dashboard adjustments, according Xbox Insider team lead Bradley Rossetti in a new post on Xbox Wire, is to find ways of getting players into their gaming experiences faster and “keeping more of your content front and center”.
As such, its latest experimental design, which will soon be available to Xbox Insiders for testing, ditches the Twists from the top of the current Home screen and replaces them with separate buttons, in a bid to make accessing the likes of Xbox Game Pass, the Xbox Community, Mixer, and the Microsoft Store “quicker than ever”.
Source: Eurogamer Xbox One's dashboard is getting another redesign, and Cortana's for the chop