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Recently, I’ve been posting in The Orlando Blog to drum up support for educational innovation in central Florida, my new home of a little more than a year. I’ve been encouraged by the response so I’ll be resuming posting in this blog as I try to mobilize action on behalf of education in my new home! In replying to a comment from a school administrator in Lake County , I explained WHY a school district ought to embrace technology in order to upgrade its ability to: Microsoft to bring full Internet Explorer browsing to Xbox 360 with Kinect controls. Microsoft is currently testing a modified version of Internet Explorer 9 on its Xbox 360 console, according to our sources.

Microsoft to bring full Internet Explorer browsing to Xbox 360 with Kinect controls

The Xbox 360 currently includes Bing voice search, but it's limited to media results. Microsoft's new Internet Explorer browser for Xbox will expand on this functionality to open up a full browser for the console. We are told that the browser will let Xbox users surf all parts of the web straight from their living rooms.

Microsoft has also integrated Kinect gestures and voice control heavily into the experience, allowing Xbox owners to quickly search using the existing Bing functionality and pull up relevant web pages.