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Microsoft is working on streamlining the time it takes to launch both the Xbox Series X and Series S. Some users of Xbox Insiders, a program that lets gamers test features before they reach the public, have noticed this. After some questions on Twitter, Josh Munsee, the company’s integrated marketing director, confirmed the news.

Xbox Series S + Series X (Image: Vitor Pádua/Tecnoblog)

Currently, if you don’t leave your console on standby, it takes about 9 seconds between turning it on and opening the Xbox dashboard. The change Microsoft is working on is intended to reduce that time to four seconds. Undoubtedly, a big difference.

This was announced in a response to a tweet from a member of the Xbox Insiders program. In the reply, Josh Munsee pointed out the difference:

I can confirm – I worked with @harrisonhoffman and @jakerose27 to create a shorter start animation (~4s) than the original (~9s), helping to reduce the overall start time.

Free translation of Josh Munsee’s tweet

Can confirm – worked with @harrisonhoffman and @jakerose27 to create a shorter boot up animation (~4s) from the original boot up animation (~9s), helping to reduce the overall startup time.

— Josh Munsee (@joshmunsee) July 23, 2022

As it is still part of a test wave, there is still no information on when Microsoft will make this news available to the public. In my opinion, I always get excited when load times or the like are shortened. Therefore, I consider this addition to be very welcome.

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Gamers are about to get some of their valuable time back. 

Microsoft confirmed on Saturday that its Xbox Series X and Series S consoles will now boot faster thanks to a speedier startup animation. The changes improve boot times by 5 seconds.

Xbox’s director of integrated marketing Josh Munsee tweeted about the improvement over the weekend. 

Can confirm – worked with @harrisonhoffman and @jakerose27 to create a shorter boot up animation (~4s) from the original boot up animation (~9s), helping to reduce the overall startup time.

— Josh Munsee (@joshmunsee) July 23, 2022

Last-generation Xbox One consoles will speed up as well, according to Xbox senior product manager Jake Rosenberg, who tweeted: “Not only is the animation shorter, but Xbox One generation consoles are booting noticeably faster with these changes!”

Right now, these improvements are available to members of the Xbox Insider program. The program gives Xbox owners access to updates before they go live to the broader public.

Xbox Series X and S owners can set their consoles to two different standby modes. One is energy-saving, which turns off the console completely. The other is an instant-on mode, leaving the console on but at a low-energy state. Before the energy-saving mode change, the console bootup took 20 seconds, but the new update brought that down to 15. Instant-on, as the name suggests, would load up an Xbox almost instantly.

The company made improvements to energy-saving mode earlier this year, allowing gamers to download games in the background. Energy-saving mode also became the default option for owners setting up a new Xbox back in March.

The Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization, said in a report last year that Xbox’s low-power standby mode would cost American owners an…

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The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S already boot quite fast thanks to their internal solid-state drives, but Microsoft has made some tweaks to make it even faster. Noted by Josh Munsee, who is an Xbox Integrated Marketing Director, boot times are now even shorter on the next-gen consoles thanks to a short boot animation (via The Verge.)

Can confirm – worked with @harrisonhoffman and @jakerose27 to create a shorter boot up animation (~4s) from the original boot up animation (~9s), helping to reduce the overall startup time.

— Josh Munsee (@joshmunsee) July 23, 2022

More technically, Microsoft has reduced the bootup animation time on the consoles by 5 seconds with a recent Xbox Insider Build. As seen in Munsee’s tweet above, the new boot animation is less than 4 seconds, whereas the previous one was about 9 seconds. It is important to note though, that this only applies if your Xbox is in Energy Saver mode, where it always fully turns off, instead of being in standby. Check it out in the video below from a fellow Xbox user.

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The Verge’s Tom Warren actually put this to the test and believes that the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S now cold boot in 15 seconds, instead of 20 seconds. It’s not clear which Xbox Insider build applied this update, but some people still have additional feedback for Microsoft, like muting the boot animation noise. Let us know what you think in the comments below.

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Josh Lopez | July 25, 2022

Microsoft has reduced the boot-up time of the Xbox Series X|S consoles.

Noticing a faster boot-up on your Xbox Series X|S console? That’s because Microsoft just improved the speed with a pretty simple fix.

According to Josh Munsee, the director of Xbox Integrated Marketing, the boot sequence is now a whole five seconds faster. That’s thanks to a shorter boot-up animation. The company has reduced the animation from nine seconds to just four seconds.

Munsee confirmed the news via Twitter:

@neonepiphany Can confirm – worked with @harrisonhoffman and @jakerose27 to create a shorter boot up animation (~4s) from the original boot up animation (~9s), helping to reduce the overall startup time.

According to The Verge:

Xbox Series X / S owners will only benefit from the speedier boot times if they have their consoles set to Energy Saver mode instead of Standby mode. Energy Saver mode means the console fully powers off, instead of entering a standby state. This means you can’t power on the console and immediately start playing, but Energy Saver is friendlier for electricity bills and the planet.

This update means that the overall boot-up time will drop from 20 seconds to 15 seconds for Xbox Series X|S consoles that are set to Energy Saver Mode instead of Standby Mode.

Tags: Josh Munsee, The Verge, Twitter, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X hardware specs, Xbox Series X optimized

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Microsoft is speeding up the Xbox Series X boot time, the director of Xbox has confirmed. The latest Xbox console has always featured a faster boot time than its predecessors. However, now, users can boot up their console up to five seconds faster. There is a catch, though, as you’ll need to use the Energy Saver mode to activate it.

Microsoft is upgrading the Xbox Series X boot time

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The Xbox Series X boot time has always been one of Microsoft’s biggest advertising pushes for the latest console. Now, though, the company is looking to make it better. Xbox testers began noticing the faster boot time recently. However, Microsoft didn’t confirm it until last Friday.

Josh Munsee, director of Xbox integrated marketing, tweeted on Friday that the company has improved the boot-up time. Munsee says that Microsoft did this by creating a shorter boot up animation. The new animation is roughly four seconds, whereas the original lasted around nine seconds.

Trimming down the animation has allowed Microsoft to speed up the Xbox Series X boot time by around five seconds. The boot-up was already quick, though. So, the upgrade isn’t as big of a difference between the newer and the older Xbox consoles. But it should still be noticeable if you use your Xbox a lot.

The catch

You can get to your games quicker with the upgraded boot animation on Xbox Series X/S. Image source: Microsoft

While the boot-up process has received a speedy upgrade, the difference won’t be apparent unless you’re using the console’s Energy Save mode. Energy Saver completely turns off the console, allowing you to conserve energy. You won’t see the faster…

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The Xbox Series X is now officially faster compared to the PlayStation 5. But, before you get the pitchforks, hear us out first.

The current Xbox Insider build cuts down the console’s boot time by as much as 25% if not more.

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Over the past few days, Xbox testers noticed their bootup times getting faster. Eventually, Microsoft fessed up and admitted that they tweaked something. Josh Munsee, director of Xbox integrated marketing, confirmed that the company did some backend work to shorten the boot up animation from 9 seconds down to 4 seconds.

Can confirm – worked with @harrisonhoffman and @jakerose27 to create a shorter boot up animation (~4s) from the original boot up animation (~9s), helping to reduce the overall startup time.

— Josh Munsee (@joshmunsee) July 23, 2022

Mind you, the changes aren’t limited to Microsoft’s latest consoles.

Senior product manager lead at Xbox, Jake Rosenberg, explained in a follow-up tweet that Xbox One owners should have their consoles booting up faster. Unfortunately, Xbox owners will only feel the shorter boot times if they have their consoles set to Energy Saver mode. Unlike with Standby mode, Energy Saver mode fully powers off the console. This way, the console doesn’t consume any electricity at all.

In total, the Xbox Series S/X boot process should now only take around 15 seconds instead of the usual 20. If you weren’t a huge fan of the Energy…

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The Shawnee language belongs to the Central Algonquian language family and is, therefore, related to Miami, Illinois, Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo, Menominee, Potawatomi, Ojibwa, Cree, Montegnais, and Naskapi. Regarding the archaeological evidence concerning the Shawnee homelands prior to the European invasion, some people see the Fort Ancient people in Ohio as ancestral to the Shawnee. Archaeologists Pennelope Drooker and C. Wesley Cowan, in their chapter in Societies in Eclipse: Archaeology of the Eastern Woodland Indians, A.D. 1400-1700, write:

“Archaeologists and ethnohistorians have reached no consensus about which historically named group or groups might have been descended from Fort Ancient populations, although Shawnee and related Central Algonquian groups are most often suggested.”

In his book Shawnee! The Ceremonialism of a Native American Tribe and its Cultural Background, archaeologist James Howard writes:

“It would certainly appear that the most economical explanation in terms of available archeological, linguistics, and ethnohistorical data is to equate the prehistoric Shawnees with at least part of the Fort Ancient archaeological culture, though other groups were probably involved as well.”

Since the Shawnee often migrated, it is difficult to pinpoint their aboriginal homeland at the beginning of the European invasion. In his Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, Carl Waldman writes:

“Perhaps the best way to think of their territory is generally to the west of the Cumberland Mountains of the Appalachian chain, with the Cumberland River at the center. At one time or another, the Shawnees had villages along many of the rivers of the region: the Cumberland, the Ohio, the Tennessee. This area now comprises parts of the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia.”

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The Shawnee, like many other Algonqian-speaking people, engaged in a combination of farming, hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants. Farming was of secondary economic importance and contributed less…

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SHAWANO COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) – The National Weather Service has confirmed a 10th tornado from the June 15 storms in Northeast Wisconsin.

NWS says an EF1 tornado touched down in Stockbridge-Munsee at about 5:46 p.m. Estimated peak winds were 95 mph with a path length of 0.58 miles.

On June 15, a cold front moved across Northeast Wisconsin causing widespread damage. CLICK HERE to learn more about the storms.

CONFIRMED TORNADOES

SEYMOUR/BLACK CREEK – OUTAGAMIE COUNTY

• 6:10 – 6:20 P.M.
• EF-1
• 105 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 9.37 MILES
• 400 YARDS MAX WIDTH

WEST BLOOMFIELD – WAUSHARA COUNTY

• 5:41-5:47 P.M.
• EF1
• 95 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 4.8 MILES
• 100 YARDS MAX WIDTH

MANAWA – WAUPACA COUNTY

• 5:52 – 5:56 P.M.
• EF1
• 90 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 3.1 MILES
• 120 YARDS MAX WIDTH

SILVER CLIFF – MARINETTE COUNTY

• 6:31 – 6:35 P.M.
• EF2
• 112 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 1.9 MILES
• 375 YARDS MAX WIDTH

NAVARINO – SHAWANO COUNTY

BOWLER – SHAWANO COUNTY

• 5:34 – 5:46 P.M.
• EF1
• 110 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 9.5 MILES
• 125 YARDS MAX WIDTH

MIDDLE INLET – MARINETTE COUNTY

• 6:34-6:41 P.M.
• EF1
• 93 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 6.6 MILES
• 200 YARDS MAX WIDTH

AMBERG – MARINETTE COUNTY

• 6:45 – 6:54 P.M.
• EF1
• 95 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 8.5 MILES
• 120 YARDS MAX WIDTH

PEMBINE – MARINETTE COUNTY

• 7 – 7:04 P.M.
• EF1
• 104 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 0.65 MILES
• 115 YARDS MAX WIDTH

STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE – SHAWANO COUNTY

• 5:46 – 5:47 P.M.
• EF1
• 95 MPH PEAK WINDS
• 0.58 MILES
• 50 YARDS MAX WIDTH

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