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The Xbox LIVE December Update - Pros n' Cons.

Something else other than the Jeff saga that'll hang for a few more weeks, but I thought I'd come back at the Xbox Live "Fall"/"December" update. It's here, for about two days now. And it's actually pretty good. But everything has flaws...

PROS:
- Marketplace is now looking organized. Atlast.
- Easier to download TV shows and such.
- Full-screen Movie/Music/TV Show previews( :D! ).
- Arcade Games are organized.
- "Bio"added, which is pretty interesting.
- "Name" added. Pointless, but a neat addition nevertheless.
- "Location" is now alot more specific than just country. I happen to come from "New York County", fancy synonym for Manhattan...
- Friends' list is looking alot better.
- Xbox Originals on the Marketplace.
- Friends can view friends' friend's lists. Pointless addition, but heck it's a "Community" afterall.
- Messages combined with Friends on the dash.
- Somesort of CNN-like News System replaced the original Messages space.
- Games Library replaced the"Demo's", "Played Games" and "Xbox LIVE Arcade" into one.

CONS:
- One extra advertisement on the Games page...
- Xbox Originals are fully advertised with the 120GB HDD which will soon become a need when you buy alot of these...
- Games Library is a little bit confusing to navigate.
- Slight delay when activating a disk, or turning off the console. Utterly useless.
- LIVE's now spelled with all capitals. Rather than just Live, don't see the need to spend time on that...
- None of the "Family" glitched have been fixed.
- Thanks to the new information Xbox LIVE has to load, friends list now load atleast a second slower before showing all information.
- Explicit language is still allowed in the Bio, location and name. Don't see why it's a con, but putting it on pro doesn't work either.

Ah well, for once it's pros outnumber the cons. Well done Microsoft.