Its been a while since we’ve seen any innovative updates to the XBox 360 operating system.  If the list circulating the internet is even partly true, this time around we may see some major improvements to our beloved bricking behemoth.

Xbox LIVE
1. Option to delay sign-in to Xbox LIVE on boot to allow user to set online status.
2. Option to promote child account from family settings.
3. Disable ability of child accounts over 18 to override family settings by launching privacy settings through a title.
4. Option in family settings for child accounts to enable child-oriented/non-mature advertisements.
5. Introduce a 4 person group chat for private chat and conferences through video chat.
6. Support to indicate media being watched to gamercard status (video content from Marketplace only).
7. Extend height for bio field in personal profile, easier navigation through text.
8. More fields present in personal profile - recent achievements, interests, games, movies, links, custom section.
9. Compact personal profile for new fields (navigating to field will open it up).
10. Mandatory option to delete duplicate titles from gamercard (excludes Games for Windows - LIVE). User disconnected from Xbox LIVE when booting any title until action complete.
11. Option to remove payment information from gamertag.
12. New payment methods for international users.
13. Download history on account management better organized - games, genre, type, download date, miscellaneous.
14. Long descriptions of items on marketplace can be scrolled using right stick. <–This should have been done long ago.  Perhaps prior to the release of Rock Band?
15. Better organization of free content on marketplace. <–This wouldn’t have been an issue if I hadn’t seen the much nicer way the PlayStation Network does it.
16. Option to ‘ping’ when testing connection.
17. Allow re-connection to Xbox LIVE if ethernet cable is re-inserted whilst powered on.  <–This is big for me.  Sometimes I unplug my router or switch and I hate having to go through the entire process to re-connect to XBox Live.
18. New strip colors available to developers, staff gamercards.  <–Different colors for Recreational and Pro gamers?
19. New corner icon available to ambassadors.  <–Ambassador?  Game with Fame?
20. Re-introduce messages button for Inside Xbox updates only.
21. Option to store up to 10 messages permanently on server excludes invites, status messages.
22. Increase character limit for text messages between friends only.  <–This doesn’t make sense if they enable Live Mail.
23. Option to disable invites from non-friends or all players.  <–I don’t get that many anymore so it doesn’t bother me much.
24. Option to disable invites from titles not on gamercard excludes demos.
25. Option to have smaller items moved up in active downloads.
26. Automatically re-connect to Xbox LIVE if disconnected unexpectedly at set intervals.
27. Option to download gamer picture, if available, from a gamercard being viewed.
28. Display random tips to replace static text on Xbox LIVE and games blades.
29. New button on Marketplace for optional dashboard features - uses storage device memory.
30. Option to donate Microsoft Points to anybody with a Windows Live ID.  <–Kind of cool.  Opens the door to tournament rewards or payment options for custom content like they promised years ago.  PGR4 Paint Jobs, etc.
31. Option to purchase membership for charities includes benefits.
32. Integrate file-sharing for selected titles on Xbox LIVE and Games for Windows - LIVE.  <–More hints about that custom work.
33. Disable notifications to friends of user repeatedly signing into service for a set period.
34. Option to see ’snippet’ of text message in notification.
35. Windows Live Mail integration - includes support for Xbox LIVE Vision.
36. Web feeds integration - text, images, audio. Includes support for specific item codes on Marketplace.
37. Option to display gamer picture or standard picture as display picture in Windows Live Messenger.
38. Support for headset, Xbox LIVE Vision in Windows Live Messenger.
39. Support for limited ‘winks’ that display on dashboard interface. Option to disable ‘winks’ and ‘nudges’ added.
40. Notifications separate from Windows Live Messenger to Xbox 360 notifications.
41. Disable multiple languages from being used in any Xbox LIVE editable fields.

Games
1. Option to delete titles from gamercard with 0 gamerscore and 0 achievements excludes some titles that will be re-added to launch another title.  <–This is kind of cool.  A bit late to the game, but nice.
2. Organize My Games at the games library section better, includes disc-based titles, - sort by genre, platform, Games for Windows - LIVE and percentage completion.
3. Support to display friends leaderboards for disc-based titles.
4. Show dates of an achievement unlocked when comparing.
5. Preload games library upon dashboard bootup for faster access.
6. Game updates now shown as items in memory, increased amount of updates on storage device.  <–I don’t completely understand the second part of this.  They increased the amount of updates allowed or this update increased the amount of updates in general?
7. Option to delete game updates, removed ‘cheat code’ as no longer needed.
8. Support for more titles to display banner when accessing guide in-game.
9. Option to re-introduce awarded gamer pictures from titles that do not have their own re-introduce feature.  This requires a saved game.  <–Special rewards for getting 100% in Crackdown?  This is cool.
10. Disable gamer pictures from being awarded from trials.
11. Support for titles to store installation data on storage device for faster loading.  <–I’m assuming they don’t mean caching.  After all Halo 3 already did this.  So installation support.  This will be a pain for anyone but those few with the 120 GB hard drive.
12. Synchronization to achievements offline/online that were deleted and then re-added from developers.  <–They are deleting achievements now?  Limited time achievements for early adopters?  What can this mean?

Media
1. Option to hold LT and RT for rewinding/fast-forwarding video content.
2. Option to delete individual music tracks from storage device.
3. Option to rip music CD at different quality.
4. Copy non-protected files like pictures, music and videos from USB storage devices, CDs and computers to proprietary storage devices.
5. Support for menu, top-menu features on video content downloaded from Marketplace.
6. Section added for audio delivered through feeds such as podcasts. Option to stream, download to storage device.  <–I hope, but seriously doubt, that this means we can play podcasts directly through the connected iPod.  I already have podcasts streaming from my home server to the 360 so this won’t add any new functionalities.
7. Support added for video titles/description to gamercard status.  <–Hey everyone!  Nelson is watching porn again!

Dashboard/Miscellaneous
1. Option to navigate quickly out of several menus back to respective blade home.  This applies to games, media and system blades.
2. New blade trim styles added.  <–New blade styles?  So not just different color schemes?  I wonder if they will continue to charge for them?  The PS3 themes are VERY different, you can create your own and best of all, they are FREE.  XBox Live charges you a monthly fee then charges for these items on top of that.  Ouch.
3. Introduce expanded Inside Xbox as a portal to news, weather, entertainment, help and community features.
4. New sounds for various functions such as, notifications, blades and navigation.  <–Customized sounds for themes?
5. Calibration options for display/sound.
6. Calibration options for motion sensor devices.  <–Motion, Sensor, devices.  This could mean ANYTHING.  Lets not jump the gun and expect a Thrii-mote.
7. New effects for Xbox LIVE Vision and dashboard background.  <–Cool, but I hope they don’t charge.
8. Disable changing of theme when on memory to prevent lock ups.
9. Preload recent, limited items upon dashboard bootup on memory.  <–This means it is going to take longer to boot up.  Oh joy.
10. Faster loading of themes section on guide.
11. Option to see what items will not work offline due to DRM license changing from memory.  <–DRM is never good news.  But I guess this makes sense.  If you buy a game on XBox Live Arcade and you disconnect your 360, the least they could do is let you know that it won’t work.  Don’t bother taking your 360 to friends if they don’t have internet access people.
12. Option to automatically associate new DRM to items downloaded for free.  <–Question:  Why DRM free stuff?
13. Indicate charging status on guide when Play & Charge kit is connected.
14. Option to change text colors on guide to better contrast some backgrounds.
16. Language improvements.
18. Word censor updated for fields.
19. Privacy settings and family settings updated for new features.
20. Voice, picture messages can be read at Xbox.com exclusively for Gold accounts.

Kotaku believes this is fake.  I’m not so convinced.  These things are likely.  No one truly knows if they will ALL show up, but I think we will see most of them this Spring.