I guess its time to stop buying those premium themes, because after every dashboard update they become useless. The beacons and cloud storage sounds nice though.

it sounds nice overall, but I wish you had an option to switch between all the dashboards of before and up to now, instead of forcing us to switch every year when we're happy with what we have.

Gotta agree, while the new dashboard looks really nice it's ruined by way too many ads.

The worst of it is the default action on any section is never what it should be, but rather the focus is on the giant ad in that section.

I have never seen a need for this. Can we please fire the designers responsible for coming up with lame UIs every other year, and knock a couple of bucks off the subscription?

In the new dash, I cant find an option to view all of my "Full Games" In the old dash I could view them (All of my disc and arcade games that were not demos combined into one list)
Sometimes I use that list to decide what I want to play. Now its broken up in different ways and I cant find a equal to that list. (unless I'm just missing it)

--- Replying to blakepro -----
It's under the Games tile in the My Xbox menu.

--- Replying to txshurricane -----

Thank you sir. I'll have to give it another look. I thought I checked there.. Then again, I haven't looked back in there since the first day of the beta.

I dislike that I can't use my mic to do the voice commands for bing searching. I'll pay for an update that gives the Xbox the algorithms that allow Kinect to do that, but I refuse to buy a Kinect.

I like the Beacons, but they do not set a time to play only a message for anyone that sees it. So I name set my times and/or who I want to play with.

It feels like a forced update without a need this time. At least before I got into what they changed, and most times it was for the better. Now it is just a way to advertise more and try to make things more uniform for the Windows branding...there's a reason I hate Windows phones and Windows for PC. I don't understand why they have to ruin the one amazing thing I love from Microsoft, leave my 360 alone...unless you can make it better!

They finally got the premium themes working properly, but I still hate that all these fugly boxes are blocking my view of anything I purchased for the background, also they compact all of the extras beside you friends too...not the same feel at all.

Biggest problem, I feel like I can't find a damn thing anymore! I spent an hour trying to search simple things that once took one or two button presses to get to...most times I still couldn't find what I was looking for.

This so-called update is without merit and actually is, not just one, but several steps back and a few to the side of wtf.

MrxKnown, the Kinect hardware itself does the voice processing for Kinect voice commands. Me, I think Kinect is pretty rad and good for ya's, but I suppose it's not for everybody.

Errant Paradigm, don't hate on Windows Phone! First off, it only debuted last fall and it keeps getting better. Second, it's nice playing Xbox Live games on the go.

We'll all get used to where everything is on the new dashboard in time.

"sometimes make it difficult to find the actual content you%u2019re looking for"

Great... I already find the current Dashboard a bit of a maze as it is.

I've never liked this new dashboard one bit. Its ruined premuim themes altogether, having way too many ads & is more towards kinect friendly users which I ain't part of (And will most likely never be part of). I wish that M$ would give us the freedom option to either keep the exsisting dashboard (Which IMO is better) or get the new dashboard. I've said this many times before on many different sites, the playstation design is way better than M$ designers.

Yeah... "If it aint broken, why fix it ? " comes to mind...

I like that the PS3 has had the same layout on the dashboard ever since I got it. Simple, yet functional.

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Okay, so I finally got around to looking for it and I dont see the option that I had on the old dashboard.

I click the Games tab, Then My Games, then I have the following options: All, Demos, Arcade, Indie, Kinect, Recently Played, Recently Downloaded.

There is no option to have my full arcade games, and full disc based games combined into one list without demos. In fact, I dont even see an option to just list my disc based games that I have installed. I used that list all the time on the old dashboard. I miss it.