First off in M$ news the developer conference. So the M$ Dev. confer. (I just shorted every word there :D) is being held next year. This is exciting because its most likely that we are going to hear about very secret-kept Windows 7. Its gonna be exciting to hear what M$ has to say about their new OS that they haven't said much about yet (search for my "thoughts on Windows 7" blog for more info). Again, its gonna be held next year in October. Now the dashboard. The update made everything slow and laggy on Xbox live. This was b/c too many people were trying to download and use the service at once. By today ot later it should be working even better than before. Just wanted to clear things up. And BTW I always keep up with all the gaming and tech news 24/7, but don't always blog about it :P.