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If the leaked list of features is true (and it certainly sounds authentic), you can expect your Xbox 360 will soon support a Wii-style motion control input device and the ability to optionally install game assets to a hard drive like the PS3. Other reported improvements include:

• Four-person video chat
• Windows Live Mail with headset, gamer picture, winks, nudges and Xbox Live Vision support
• Web feeds and podcasts
• Expanded Inside Xbox with news, weather and entertainment alongside the marketing and support content there now
• Long overdue delayed sign-in, so you can mark your self offline before you boss sees what you're doing online during your (cough cough) sick day
• My Games improved sorting and preloading
• Child account promotion (for when your kid is all growed up)
• Delete games with zero gamerscore from your online history (for those neat freaks)
• View and delete game updates (without the cheat)
• Remove your payment information
• Improved download history report
• Scroll Marketplace descriptions yourself (instead of having to wait for them to auto-scroll)
• Access voice and picture messages from Xbox.com (Gold members only)
• View whether content is licensed only for offline use on your console (damn non-transferable DRM!)
• Donate memberships to charities and give Microsoft points to anybody

There are dozens of other tweaks including more UI polish and sound effects. It's not clear, but it seems like you'll be able to download some media - such as podcasts - from your 360 to a storage device, which (if true) seems like a loosening of the content control reins. Time will tell if these features are authentic, or if Microsoft will ever truly fix DRM license control so users can move their purchased content to a new or replacement console (how many years and red rings of death has it been?). A worthy update, but not the BEST. UPDATE. EVER...