Rumor: Kinect-enabled Internet Explorer browser coming to Xbox 360

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Good news: the Xbox 360 will finally have a web browser in the near future, according to a Verge source. Bad news: It's Internet Explorer.

The source tells The Verge that the new web browser is based on Internet Explorer 9, and features Kinect functionality, allowing users to search with voice input just like the Bing search tech used in the current dashboard. Users will also be able to browse the web without talking to it, reportedly.

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/10/rumor-kinect-enabled-internet-explorer-browser-coming-to-xbox-3/#comments

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TheDiesoulPosted:

iamiconz Hmmm... They've been making this web browser for how long? And we're just now getting it on the consoles? Sony doesn't make a web browser and they get one on theirs first? Seems reasonable.

It's because microsoft doesn't want web browsers on xbox for some reason.

MPAAPosted:

Characters That wold be nice to have a web browser on xbox...Internet Explorer 9 is pretty good :)

MSIE 9 pretty good? ugh i hate the cleartype on that, it's not even optional! ah well, their loss. Chrome FTW.

Cartledge1996Posted:

Characters That wold be nice to have a web browser on xbox...Internet Explorer 9 is pretty good :)


r u kidin internet explorer is **** shit it takes about 10 seconds to start up, and dont say its my pc i have a 1200 gaming pc so its not that they should get google chrome

RojoPosted:

That wold be nice to have a web browser on xbox...Internet Explorer 9 is pretty good :)

MPAAPosted:

Browser + Xbox = you're gotta be having a laugh.

They have denied it will ever happen.

mxzdPosted:

Hmmm... They've been making this web browser for how long? And we're just now getting it on the consoles? Sony doesn't make a web browser and they get one on theirs first? Seems reasonable.

SteelSeriesPosted:

"Bad news: It's Internet Explorer" - lol

Bl00dyMurd3rPosted:

-LOST- WTF took so long...


Seriously, we've been waiting 7 and a half years for this lol

VEVOPosted:

Spark7417 It would be nice but what kept microsoft from adding internet browsing in the past was the threat of computer visuses. I could see the point in now having one on there that is why we all have computers.
A 360 virus? PS3 has a browser and they don't get viruses. What's the threat to the 360 then?

VEVOPosted:

Well what the hell do you expect? Chrome? Firefox? The 360 is manufactured by Microsoft so of course it's going to be IE.


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