Xbox Facebook and Twitter apps removed to encourage Internet Explorer use?

another flash..... ? man.

so Microsoft wants to play monoplay again? OLD NEWS ARE SO EXCITING.

what Multiple sources?get some new fucking material 2 news indentical? 

Internet Explorer - the browser you use to download other browsers

You're saying a closed system might be forcing people to use certain applications?  O-M-G STOP T-H-E PRESSES GIRLFRIEND!  SURF'S UP G'S DOWN.

I'd pick IE over FB and twitter any day. Social networking has lost its appeal and has become more of an annoyance than a benefit. But even more than that, why would we want to have FB and twitter on our game consoles? I mean, honestly, who is gonna give a **** about our xbox/ps3 achievement on fb? If anything, it's just gonna make people want to block you.

Why add them and talk them up in the first place?

I doubt many people will care or even miss the facebook and twitter apps anyway, but still why even add them in the first place Microsoft.

Your taking things out with an update. that makes u look lame!

Never really cared for browsers on game consoles. Last one I used on a regular basis was the browser on the Dreamcast until I bought my first PC (folks couldn't afford it while I was in school and dial-up was the best you could get at the time anyway) to do my web browsing.

If nothing else, having IE on Xbox will do one thing: open up Live to people staying at hotels that you have to go to a webpage to log into the Internet. That was one advantage EVERYBODY had over MS with their game consoles; even on my DS I was able to go online while at hotels but I had to tether my laptop connection to the Xbox since there was no browser to use to log on directly

Never ganna happen! Love Firefox. Want to change to chrome, just too lazy. Safari. Whatever. Anything but IE

Only in this day and age can something so simple and obvious be not only OMG news worthy, but also some sort of conspiracy - in this case, Microsoft trying to shunt out apps to get people to use their new Internet Explorer app.

Fact. Before IE for the 360 was here, you couldn't access websites with it. Officially.

For some reason, Microsoft thought that some users wanted to access Facebook and Twitter through their gaming console instead of actually playing games. So they brought along the Facebook and Twitter apps for 'those users'. Fair enough.

Now, with the 360 finally being able to access websites from the internet, and I'm guessing such websites like Facebook and Twitter are some of those available, what the hell is the point of having the apps available?

This isn't some weird version of Pokemon where you have to collect every app possible. This isn't a move from Microsoft to get people to use the IE. This is common sense FFS.

Google Chrome FTW

 The browser on the 360 works just like a normal browsers...

People actually use Facebook on the xbox? I could understand twitter thought...

They just don't really want me to buy an Xbox 360 this year huh?

It's wrong. Internet Explorer in the Xbox doesn't allow Java or Adobe.  Only HTML. This means you won't get access to 90% of the video content in the net.

this is what makes laptops awesome. I can have the best of both worlds. Although, I have a ps3 so I never used the crappy browser on it anyway

Incredible :-)

I use my vita for facebook and twitter when I'm away from my pc so this doesn't bug me at all and if I could I would uninstall IE I refuse to use IE the only time that I have used it is when it was the only browser on my pc which only happens when I build a new one or just I just formatted that one that I have and I only use it once and that is to install firefox

Dont bother trying to compete with Twitter and Facebook Microsoft. Just stick to making a good operating system and xbox

Safari for the win

All I can say is LOLOLOLOLOL.

The facebook app is useless anyways.

Microsoft forcing people to use its Crappy Browser instead on other third party apps? Shocking!!

That's why it's easier to just save the web browsing for the computer. 

So would using the Internet explorer on my 360(when it becomes available) open up my 360 to virus's?

Thank goodness we still have Facebook and Twitter on our phones, tablets - even TVs. And we still have browsers like Chrome and Firefox for accessing them on our PCs.

In all honesty, I find these two applications very cumbersome to use on my Xbox 360. Anyone has a different experience?

I hear all the ppl on here ripping internet explorer a new and I understand why everything before internet explorer 9 was F#*KING TERRIBLE infasis on the F#*KING TERRIBLE part but I actually like internet explorer 9 it's actually faster then google chrome which I thought I'd never say.

Internet Explorer sucks balls

Chrome is the way to go for sure

strange move, taking it away to new people. Do they want the revenue from a dedicated XBOX web portal?

--whoever comes out on top of the "homepage" console browser wars

--there gonna be making several million time$ more than anyone else in the gaming industry

--sorta makes microsoft's xbox venture  make sen$e all of a sudden? 

i don't care for any new updates from Xbox endless they take away the damn adds that sit all over the dash pffff

I don't know if I'm representative, so let me ask this: Do any of you use the PS3 or Wii web browsers on a reguar basis?  And if so, do you have a real hardware keyboard, or do you do all your typing using the controller and on-screen keyboard?

If I have to type anything complex, I plug a USB keyboard into my console, but really, if I want to do any real browsing, I'm more likely to just get up and go to a computer or grab a tablet / smartphone.  I'm glad the console browsers are there, but I don't use them much at all.

5 years later Microsoft finally adds a browser to 360. I've been thankful for my PS3 having it - I don't use it often but it has allowed me to sign into my school's wi-fi easily, just open it up and log in

Ehhh, not really suprised (except by the fact people would use their console for general internet browsing or social media updating).

NOW Sony should respond with Chrome, Firefox, or even a paid for Opera!!!!

something because the browser that Sony has SUCKS!!!!!

IE is junk and prone to security risks...kind of what happened about a month ago. Chrome is the way to go.