Group Replace February 2024 – tenth Anniversary Celebrations

Overview

This month’s Group Replace might be quick and candy like these little sweet hearts you bought in elementary faculty. (Sure, we can maintain fingers. Thanks for asking.) We’ve TON of content material nonetheless to return this month, however we wished to focus on a couple of issues right here for everybody’s profit.

As Historical past Would Have It

This month marks the official tenth Anniversary of the Xbox Insider Program. You’ll be able to really nonetheless learn the announcement article from February twentieth, 2014 proper right here (Program Announcement). Then referred to as the Xbox Preview Program, we’ve since advanced from an invite-only, platform-focused enterprise, into an open manner for customers internationally to ship their suggestions for console, options, PC, cell, and video games alike. The Xbox Insider Program, which we christened on the Wire again in 2016 (Program Rebrand), has flourished this previous decade and that’s in an extremely giant half because of the hundreds of thousands of Xbox followers from our neighborhood (that’s y’all!). So, from everybody right here at Xbox Insider, we need to give an infinite thanks for everybody who has contributed through the years.

We additionally need to acknowledge and uplift all of the individuals behind the scenes who work to make this Program successful. That’s why we’re doing a set of interview fashion articles for everybody at present engaged on the group, in addition to an extended, extra in-depth have a look at your complete historical past of Xbox Insider later within the month. We launched our first interview final Thursday, which you’ll be able to take a look at right here (Meet Joshua!), and our subsequent interview might be out tomorrow!

Re-Entry

We’ve teased this a couple of occasions, however we’re making it official at the moment. Over the following a number of weeks, you’ll see that Xbox Insider Launch Notes may have a brand new dwelling on the Xbox Help web site! We’ve been working behind the scenes on this migration for some time, and we’re tremendous excited to share our new dwelling with different Xbox assist content material. This transfer is going on for a couple of causes. We wished to have a extra static location the place Xbox Insiders can discover the latest updates (every Ring may have its personal web page now!), and we additionally wished to unlock our blogspace on the Wire to have the ability to ship new—and improved—content material. We’ve been working to comprehend some actually cool content material for the Wire, so look out for extra sooner or later!

As We Look On

We hope everybody has loved the transient look into the beginning of our content material slate for February. There’s nonetheless loads extra to return, and we anticipate fairly a couple of “firsts” to be headlining this weblog within the coming weeks/months.

As at all times, I hope everybody loved this installment of the Xbox Insider Program Group Replace. If you wish to chat about this—and all the pieces else XIP—hop on over to the r/XboxInsiders subreddit or throw us a comply with @xboxinsider.