New Xbox Experience

Further information: New Xbox Experience
At E3 2008, at Microsoft's Show, Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg and Marc Whitten announced the new look Xbox 360 called the "New Xbox Experience". The idea of the update was to make navigation of the console easier. The GUI uses the Twist UI (used in Windows Media Center, Zune). The original "Blade" interface is still used in the new Xbox Guide. The new guide allows you to do everything you could do from the Dashboard itself, whether it's ejecting a disk or browsing the Marketplace.
As well as a GUI update, the NXE provided many new features. Firstly, the update offers the ability to install games from disc to the hard drive, reducing load times and disc drive noise, however, the game's disc must remain in the system in order to run. A new Community system is also built in, allowing the creation of digitalised Avatars. These Avatars can then be used for multiple activities such as sharing photos or playing Arcade games like 1 vs. 100. The update was released on November 19, 2008.[38]
While previous system updates have been stored on internal memory, this was the first update to require a storage device. The update requires at least 128 MB free space on either a memory card or a hard drive.