A aggregation of newborn features are on the artefact to Xbox Live after this year: a redesigned dashboard, enhanced Kinect support, Bing vocalise search, and a UFC app are meet whatever of the newborn features you crapper expect. An Xbox 360 update free early today doesn't wage whatever of those newborn features. In fact, as farther as you're afraid as an end-user, it doesn't do anything -- though that doesn't stingy you won't intend an early countenance at those newborn features than expected.

The Microsoft Connect place has an area sequential up for fascinated Xbox 360 owners to administer to embellish a beta inquirer for the newborn dashboard update. Earlier today it was accepting users, but as Joystiq reports, the place has been changed to state that registrations are not existence acknowledged at the moment. That's probable because this went open rather than due and Microsoft isn't primed to begin soliciting users for testers. The beatific programme is that whatever 360 users won't hit to move until the update is discover to essay discover whatever of the newborn functionality.

We're ease without an literal fellow for when the update is coming. The UFC app has been dated for Dec 1, aweigh of the Dec 10 PPV that crapper be sequential finished it. Presumably the dashboard update itself will be discover before then; Nov 15 was reportedly a fellow existence eyed, as indicated by an interior PayPal email. solon recently, GigaOM reportable that the update is supported on Microsoft's Silverlight and that a promulgation on Negroid weekday -- Nov 25 -- is instead existence targeted.