Xbox dashboard update drops today, adds Internet Explorer, other silly stuff.

The Xbox dashboard update is rolling out today, dropping a variety of features it should already be…featuring? You’re going to get an Internet Explorer up in the house, and much, much more! Or something.

Gizmodo:

Starting today, Microsoft will officially release a new software update to all Xbox 360 users that will include a big blue icon with an ‘e’ stamped on it. Yep, the Xbox 360 is finally getting Internet Explorer, a real browser for your TV.

We’ve been playing with the new 2012 Xbox 360 dashboard update for a few months now and to be completely honest, most people won’t even notice a difference. There aremore apps and there’s the pretty awesome Xbox Music and a few other features thrown in but in terms of look and feel? It’s nearly the same as last year’s (don’t call it) Metro design. Visually, the similarities between this year’s Xbox 360 update and last year’s dashboard is like how Windows Phone 8 looks nearly the same as Windows Phone 7 save for a few re-sized tiles. It’s tweaking and massaging and honing a design concept that Microsoft so obviously believes in.

Which is to say, the new Xbox 360 dashboard update looks like Windows Phone 8 which looks like Windows 8 which looks like Outlook which looks like Surface which looks like Xbox which looks like, well, Microsoft.