Microsoft Spring Update Leak

Leaks, although their namesake maybe somewhat Welsh in nature are good things.

Tiny snippets of the future without having to take chances with a post-menstrual bint on a page directly opposite Striker in the Sun newspaper.

Back to the point in hand. Kotaku today report that they received an anonymous E-Mail listing the updates for the forthcoming Microsoft spring update. Rather than list all 80 of them it'd probably much easier for me to provide you with a link.

Notable updates in this list include some of the following:

8. More fields present in Personal Profile - recent achievements, interests, games, movies, links, custom section

This would have been useful last week when I was comparing my friends to see if I was the first to whoop their asses at achievements in GTA IV. Of course it goes without saying that I was, but it makes me feel more of a man to see it in person all the same.

14. Long descriptions of items on Marketplace can be scrolled using right stick.

It goes without saying how annoying this is at present. When making purchases on marketplace,

reading a description of what your getting shouldn't be a slideshow.

30. Option to donate Microsoft Points to anybody with a Windows Live ID.

A great feature, especially as most my friends are all jobless bums/students. Hopefully you can also donate them gold membership cards.

33. Disable notifications to friends of user repeatedly signing into service (set period).

Again, incredibly useful. Especially as two people on my list (who shall remain unnamed) always do this. One of them continuously signing onto XBL.COM every 10 minutes and another who insists on patching all his games one after the other, which requires a disconnect/reconnect.

There's a few other good'uns and a few rather bad ones;

39. Support for limited 'winks' that display on dashboard interface. Option to disable 'winks' and 'nudges' added.

God no. I don't want messages full of smileys and other annoying fuckery. Consoles are for gaming, not conversations.

One update I would have liked them to make would be so that peoples profiles wouldn't take a year or more to load up. Which has nothing at all to do with the size of my own *hint*.

EDIT: It has since been announced that there will be no 'spring update'. Time will tell if this means the above still won't be implemented in some shape or form.