What is the feeling of updating the Xbox One system to the Win10 first anniversary update?

Microsoft officially pushed the Xbox One summer system update to all players last week, which is what we call the Win10 first anniversary update. This update brings players the long-awaited Cortana voice assistant and background music playback support, which currently supports Pandora radio. More importantly, the formal separation of language and system area options is good news for Bank of China players.

At the same time, after the summer system update, the Xbox Play Anywhere service announced on E3 this year was officially launched. Since then, all Xbox games marked with "Xbox Play Anywhere" have been purchased. After a digital version, you will get the XB1/Windows10 dual version.

In addition, the previously confusing game/app list has been further sorted out, and the alphabetical order from A to Z has been added, and the download speed can also be displayed in the download list in the system background. It should be noted that the Xbox One S mainframe, which was released on August 2nd, is guaranteed to have been updated in the summer before leaving the factory.

Xbox Live has also made some updates. Now Windows 10 games can also be displayed in the "Playing" section of the Xbox Live Friends list. And Xbox Live users can also communicate across platforms. Windows 10 Xbox Live users can also record 60FPS on screen and share it with Xbox Live, but Windows 10 users will not be able to enjoy this feature until the August 2 anniversary update. .

This is an update of about 490MB. After the update, players can enter the summer update version of the Xbox One system.

For Cortana, players need to be aware that the current assistant is only available in the UK and the US, but non-British users can also experience Cortana if they want to:

• After entering the Xbox start interface, move the left stick to the left to bring up the user window, open “Set”;

• Select “All settings”, open and find &ldquo ;language and region"options;

• change "language" and "language area" to "English (UK)" or "English (United States)"; "“ "Region" changed to "United Kingdom" or "United States", select "Resume immediately" <;Restart now";

• After restarting, left push the left stick and select “Settings" →“All settings”→“System”, then you can see one more in the interface <;Cortana settings ;

• select“Cortana settings”, Select an account to log in, then Microsoft will request to bind the device and account in turn. No., select "ldquo; I agree" and then restart again;

• After restarting, select the account you just bound to log in.

After starting Cortana, if there is no Kinect or a headset, the player can't call out directly in the start menu. Instead, you need to select “Snap apps” in the account menu on the left side of the screen to get Cortana. Re-tune, which in turn increases the complexity of using Cortana.

However, players with Kinect or a headset can enjoy the convenience of Cortana. When making a voice call to Cortana at the beginning of the interface, you only need to say “Cortana” to call out Cortana directly, without having to make “Hi, Cortana” instructions on the PC or mobile phone, which is very user-friendly.

Cortana will appear on the right side of the screen after the callout, and the player can search or other commands via the virtual keyboard input or headset. For the more intelligent Windows 10 PC version and Windows 10 Mobile version of Cortana, the Xbox One version of Cortana can not provide schedule suggestions for players in non-British and American regions. It can't provide weather conditions. Currently, only Bing search and Xbox One host can be done. Controlled; and very friendly, the Xbox One version of Cortana recognizes all Xbox commands that require Kinect to use, which means that with Cortana, there is no need for players to use Kinect for voice control of the Xbox One.

It’s worth noting that with the new version of the handle, the player with the Xbox One handle with 3.5mm headphone jack can control the Cortana voice by simply connecting the headset with the headset function. There are no strict requirements for the device, and this can save some of the player's spending on Xbox related accessories.

But the much-anticipated background music isn't traditionally supported. It doesn't come with a background media player that plays local music files like the PS4 system, but adds Xbox One. Support for this feature on Windows 10 systems, that is, applications that need to be compatible with “Background Play & rdquo; The current embarrassing situation is that Xbox one's own media player and Groove music are currently not compatible with this feature, so players must download third-party music playback applications or radio applications.

In testing, we found that most of the recommended Pandora radios were not available in the country, and an app called Cast was not only found and downloaded on the Xbox One store, but it also Can search for the vast majority of domestic radio stations. If the player is tired of listening to the music that comes with the game while playing Extreme Racing: Horizon, download this software to make your “background music” more abundant.

However, there are other applications outside of Cast that support background playback, which requires players to find them one by one. And for now, devices like the Xbox One, players are still more likely to use it as a gaming machine rather than a versatile TV box, plus the need to install additional applications to enable music background playback. This cumbersome logic may prevent the promotion of this feature.

Overall, the key elements of the Xbox One Summer Update: Cortana Assistant and background music playback are amazing, but the problem that has to be asked is that Cortana is still more "stupid", it also needs Do more learning; the logic of the background music playback function is somewhat confusing, but it can make this feature richer with the rich possibilities of the application itself.

But to be honest, although these two features are really good, it's really a headache for you to open these two features for a while. Microsoft's "engineer thinking" really needs to be changed.