It didn't pop up for me? Or is this not a beta? Do I have to go find it?

Can't wait till I get my hands on this.  This just seems a lot nicer than before with the Netflix search feature, and ESPN.  Hopefully we will get a few more channels added in the near future plus HULU support.

It's the Beta Preview program. Guess you didn't get in. Neither did I :(

I think kow misunderstood what you said thinking you wouldn't update when the final update is released.

Preview is cool enough, though I'm sad as I don't get the full ESPN experience (my ISP is not ESPN3 compliant).

Searching on Netflix is a good and overdue feature though and Zune music with a Zune pass = cool.

New icons/blades layout is cleaner looking I think; I haven't spent a ton of time on it, but I like what i've seen so far.

Nice! The Netflix browsing will be the most useful for me. Aren't the Avatars changing too? I'll check out the ESPN stuff but I already get like four or five different ESPN channels thru Time Warner. Not sure if EPSN3 is gonna give me something different.

Hey guys! Updated the OP with an article by IGN listing some other updates coming with the new dashboard.

#7 is awesome for me as we have dedicated controllers at my house.

Too bad this update is useless for the rest of the world except Kinect support. I hate it when deals like Netflix and ESPN are US bound :(

I'd like predicted text!