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[Penguins&PolarBears]

Who said WebTV was dead?

IE and Xbox One: The Best Web on TV

Familiar interface from Windows 8.1 and IE11.

Navigate the web with:

• Voice
• Gesture
• Controller
• SmartGlass

Pinned sites or favorites you saved in Internet Explorer on your Xbox 360 will be pulled forward to your Xbox One.

Support for modern web standards improved by over 200% from Xbox 360.

Move websites back and forth from your television to your phone or tablet with SmartGlass.

We’ve added browser features that you know and love from your Windows PC – website pinning, multiple tabs, inPrivate browsing, SmartScreen, Cookie blocking, and Do Not Track, and we’ve increased integration with Xbox SmartGlass

VOICE CONTROL:

Say “Xbox, Select” to see a list of all IE voice commands.
Just say "Browse to <New York Times>" to go there.
Recognizes most-visited websites, plus your favorites.
You can rename sites to something easier to remember.

Just say "Click on < Link name >" to select a link.
For long links you only need to say a few words.

Other voice commands:

• Scroll
• Playback media
• Full-screen
• Add to Favorites

GESTURE CONTROL:

Reach out and grab to scroll (up/down).
Reach out and grab to zoom (in/out).
Move hand over link and press to select.
Zoom in if links are too close together.

Snap your Twitter or Facebook feed while playing games.

Say "Click on" to choose any link on a page.

Grab the page to scroll (up/down) or to zoom (in/out). Press a link with open hand.

 

[twinturbo2]

Can we use it to get Google Chrome on the X1?

 

[frayne182]

Thats awesome!

 

[Interfectum]

could you auto refresh gaf while playing a game.

 

[Penguins&PolarBears]

Can we use it to get Google Chrome on the X1?

No, but then relatively few people still actually use that dying browser.

http://netmarketshare.com/

 

[Satchel]

This could get interesting.

YouPorn will be awesome to be able to voice control.

 

[Pociask]

Begun, the living room war has.

 

[EvB]

could you auto refresh gaf while playing a game.

You could maybe just tell kinect to refresh it?

Maybe GAF can pop a bit of code in the mobile theme to auto refresh every once and a while?

 

[Archpath1]

could you auto refresh gaf while playing a game.

I didn't think of this, live insta posting while gaming and such. Awe yea

 

[Garrett 2U]

Haha nice OP

I didn't touch IE once on Xbox 360...
But it might actually be useful on the Xbone because of voice commands, smartglass, and snap..

 

[Trogdor1123]

No, but then relatively few people still actually use that dying browser.

http://netmarketshare.com/

Seems pretty stable market share. Dont know what you have against the browser...

 

[Dega]

Damn that is awesome.

 

[R3TRO]

Nice

 

[T.O.P]

Can't wait to try this myself next week

 

[Wishmaster92]

It just keeps getting better. So good.gif

 

[enoki]

No, but then relatively few people still actually use that dying browser.

http://netmarketshare.com/

Sorry, but Chrome is not a dying browser as evident by your own link. A fairly stable 15-20%.

EDIT: You also have the market share sorted by WORLDWIDE usage.

 

[Primedoughnut]

Seems pretty stable market share. Dont know what you have against the browser...

probably because it's not made by microsoft....

 

[notBald]

I have trouble feeling hyped over a web browser on a console.

But perhaps it can be used for flash games.

 

[GrizzleBoy]

 

[Speedy Blue Dude]

The fact that you can click links vocally is so sweet. Xbox, browse NeoGAF! Go to topic "Xbox One OT".

 

[KupoNut]

Looking good. Hope all the built-in entertainment apps are as feature-packed as their Windows 8 versions and end up having mouse-support

 

[hachi]

No, but then relatively few people still actually use that dying browser.

http://netmarketshare.com/

NetApplications... Interesting selection of source you have. Quite an outlier to what is otherwise a data consensus stating the contrary. Not to mention just how increasingly insignificant IE is when you account for how much browsing is now dominated by mobile and tablets. But the stats below are purely desktop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

 

[Razdek]

I too am interested in flash support as a lot of the websites still use it.

 

[Cels]

is it still locked behind gold (like on 360)

 

[dark10x]

I do get the feeling that the Xbox One OS will be quite a bit more polished than what Sony developed for PS4. Windows 8 is a solid OS with a nice, fluid design and it seems to translate well to XB1.

 

[flkraven]

Such futuristic pictures with Tony Stark and Minority Report, yet this still doesn't support flash or silverlight. Right?

 

[Astral/H3X]

This... looks better than the one on Win8... wtf...

Thanks, MS. The one company actually making good touch screen browsers is still only half assing it.

 

[chugen]

the future is neat! gonna be a long week ._.

 

[PanicFreak]

I just hope I can stream live Widespread Panic concerts using this browser. That's probably all I'll ever use it for.

 

[NullPointer]

Good morning Batman.

 

[Penguins&PolarBears]

Seems pretty stable market share. Dont know what you have against the browser...

Hey I didn't bring Chrome into this discussion.

Dropping 3-4% in a single year is not "stable" in browser market share. (Nor is IE market share stable; it's growing pretty fast with a 3-4% gain in a single year).

Chrome is a terrible experience on a Windows touch screen device. Google might want to think about looking into that.

probably because it's not made by microsoft....

Firefox is my main desktop browser. IE is the only thing useable on touch screen though and it's gotten a lot better. Still need my plug-ins though. I use Xmarks to keep my browser favorites/bookmarks in sync between browsers.

 

[game2brain]

I'm impressed, if its close to win8 ie app, it might become a system seller for me, if not gold service bound

 

[Angelus Errare]

Better than PS4's browser hopefully.

 

[weeeeezy]

is it still locked behind gold (like on 360)

Sadly it is, but I wouldn't get an Xbox without gold anyway.

 

[hwy_61]

This is the first time I'm actually looking forward to using IE.

I never thought this day would come.

 

[EvB]

I too am interested in flash support as a lot of the websites still use it.

100% sure it won't be there.

 

[TonkuySlon]

This has some real world applications...I follow a small NCAA basketball league (the America East)...lots of their games are streamed on the web, if I can just watch this on my XOne...

#winning!

 

[BrokenIcarus]

As a web developer, my hate for IE is quite well established, but this actually looks kind of nice (although it always looks nice)

 

[GrizzleBoy]

Hey I didn't bring Chrome into this discussion.

Dropping 3-4% in a single year is not "stable" in browser market share. (Nor is IE market share stable; it's growing pretty fast with a 3-4% gain in a single year).

Chrome is a terrible experience on a Windows touch screen device. Google might want to think about looking into that.

This.

By ignoring touch on Windows 8, Google have literally allowed MS to convert me into a full time IE user.

 

[antiquegamer]

Can we use it to get Google Chrome on the X1?

Why would anyone want that crap as their browser? Chrome was my favorite browser until this year, when it seems to went to crap.

 

[FullMetaltech]

Looks really good.

 

[Tablo]

This.

By ignoring touch on Windows 8, Google have literally allowed MS to convert me into a full time IE user.

Pretty much! It works out pretty well for MS too since now IE 11 is actually glorious, so it's not like people are met with a shitty browser that's good with touch. XB1 wins another one for being an awesome media center

It's almost like Google doesn't realize it's not a good thing to shaft all people on windows platforms, it's sort of backfiring imo.

 

[NerdEyeBlind]

"XBOX, Post Reply"

"XBOX, add spoiler tags"

 

[ConteZero76]

Voice commands : And you can have in any language you want... as long as it is English.

 

[quickdevilred]

Chrome is a terrible experience on a Windows touch screen device. Google might want to think about looking into that.

they won't
google wants to ignore Microsoft in everyway until they die
they won't even let MS make a youtube app for windows phone unless they meet standards nobody else has to (html5)
Had an android tab and really disliked it but chrome was and is still my favorite browser, unfortunately no good chrome for surface or windows phone which I use so I'm stuck using IE.

 

[LukasTaves]

Howa, that's awesome. Can't wait to try!

 

[Dai101]

probably because it's not made by microsoft....

Probably because is a PoS? Fuck chrome, give me Opera or Firefox, even IE is better.

"XBOX, Post Reply"

"XBOX, add spoiler tags"

"XBOX, bish gifs"

 

[Winterfang]

This has a lot of potential.

 

[Penguins&PolarBears]

Such futuristic pictures with Tony Stark and Minority Report, yet this still doesn't support flash or silverlight. Right?

That has to be the first time I've ever heard someone associate Silverlight and Flash with being "futuristic" -- both mothballed by Adobe/MS. I understand the desire for Flash, but the increased HTML5 support is more forward thinking.

I don't know what the level of Flash support will be (Flash is built-into IE11 on PC afterall). That being said websites that heavily rely on Flash and Silverlight are probably better off as native apps on Xbox One. I'd rather use a Netflix/YouTube app than Netflix/YouTube in the web browser. Same for Flash games, I'd rather they be optimized native apps than running inside of a browser.

 

[Keyouta]

Xbox One's UI looks so fluid and nice to use. IE looks great on it too, much more functional than the PS4. It's to be expected with Msoft's experience in building OSes, but it still is really sleek!