Microsoft Launches May 2019 Xbox Update

The May 2019 Xbox Update is now available with improvements to your friends list, messaging, and My Games & Apps.

“Team Xbox is hard at work preparing for E3 and beyond, but we have a few new features that are rolling out broadly beginning today,” Microsoft’s Jason Ronald announces. “The May 2019 Xbox Update includes improvements to your friends list, messaging, and better sorting in My Games & Apps.”

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Here’s what’s new.

Friends list improvements. Your Friends list now displays unique icons next to each friend indicating which platform—Xbox One, Windows, Android, or iOS—they are using.

Messages improvements. A new Message Request feature prioritizes messages from friends and anyone you want to communicate with. Messages from people you don’t know are now displayed in a secondary message requests tab. The bad news? All previous group messages will be lost in the transition. If you want to back up any previous group messages, you can copy/paste them from Xbox.com for a limited time, Microsoft says. Messages with individual users will not be impacted.

My Games & Apps improvements. The crucial My Games & Apps view in the Xbox Dashboard no longer uses articles like “a,” “an” and “the” when sorting by name. So a game like “The Witcher” will now be sorted under “w,” as God intended, and not under “t.”

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  • Cdorf

    Premium Member
    16 May, 2019 - 11:46 am

    <p><em>So a game like “The Witcher” will now be sorted under “w,” as God intended, and not under “t.”</em></p><p><br></p><p>hahahaha! and YES!</p>

  • BeckoningEagle

    Premium Member
    16 May, 2019 - 3:10 pm

    <p>They should list it a Witcher, The, just for fun.</p>

  • Michael Rivers

    16 May, 2019 - 4:35 pm

    <p>Why would games have ever been sorted by articles? I remember learning that rule in the library at my elementary school. If I were Microsoft, I would have made that change very quietly without an announcement to avoid embarrassment.</p>

    • dontbe evil

      17 May, 2019 - 3:01 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#428652">In reply to Michael Rivers:</a></em></blockquote><p>because when you use standard sort in a programming language it works like this, you need a bit of extra work… and I think has always not been a first class problem to solve</p>

  • IanYates82

    Premium Member
    17 May, 2019 - 4:50 pm

    <p>Big fan of The and A getting ignored in titles when sorting! </p>

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