Instead of directly answering whether or not the rumored November release date for the New Xbox Live Experience is true, Microsoft instead side-stepped and said that it will have a global release before the end of the year. Well there are only three months left to it, so it goes that it will be released on November. Give or take a month.

According to Xbox Live's senior product manager, Andrew Jenkins, the update will have a global release not only through Xbox Live, but through game discs as well. The latest games will contain the Dashboard update and will be installed on your console automatically, if it hasn't done so yet:

On the date we release it, it will be a global message to update the console and if you don’t do it through our connected service, you will be able to do it on disc, so when you buy the latest Gears of War, or whatever game purchased after the release of the Dash it will have the new Dashboard in the disc and it will automatically update your Xbox.

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