Menus on Xbox Series X will look a lot like those on Xbox One

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  Familiar, yet slightly different. [credit: Microsoft / YouTube ]

As we scoot ever-closer to the November launch of the Xbox Series X, Microsoft is highlighting some upcoming changes to its "Xbox Experience" interface. Those improvements will start to roll out to the Xbox One as well in the coming weeks, Microsoft says, before the company plans to "celebrate a milestone in our user experience journey alongside the launch of Xbox Series X" in November.

Speed is a big focus of this coming round of improvements. Microsoft says the familiar Home screen will now load over 50% faster when the Xbox One boots up and nearly 30% faster when returning from a game. That comes on top of improvements to the Xbox One app store interface, which now loads in just over two seconds after an update last month.

The new menu will also have a 40 percent smaller memory footprint, Microsoft says, to "maximize the console horsepower available to games." That echoes improvements to the system's GPU bandwidth allocation from way back in 2014 which gave game developers more processing power originally dedicated to the background system menu.

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