What's the OS running Xbox 360?

Windows for Devices has the answer..

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS3988467635.html
from JoeUser Forums
Ever wonder what OS is running the Xbox 360 that's due out later this year? Essentially it's a derivative of Windows 2000 that's been ported to the PowerPC. But read the whole thing to learn more..
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
wha???? that's just crazy talk!

lol

You kow, I never thought about it. Makes me wonder what runs the Gameboy, the PSP ad other gamig consols.

I wonder if this is Microsofts way of showing other vendors how powerful their OS is at the same time making a profit from using it? Sort of like DesktopX and Political Machine?
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Perhaps, but Microsoft (and in a way Stardock) are in unique positions to leverage their other existing technological assets. If Gameboy, PSP, etc. each run on a custom-made OS, that must have taken a lot of development time and money to create. Rather than re-invent the wheel and have to invest assets into something new, Microsoft - thanks to its existing OS tech - was able to just modify something they already had.

Anyway, my point being that while a potential side-effect is that other vendors see how flexible Microsoft's OS is, it's not the primary reason behind MS using the Win2000 core. IMO, the primary reason is that it saves them a lot of time and money to reuse existing assets. In a way this harkens back to one of my articles on game company efficiency.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
As for the Gameboy OS I am pretty sure that Nintendo has just used the samething since Gameboy started wayyyyyy back, just kept updating it like MS is updating the Xbox OS. In this case, yea I guess MS did save some money by stripping down Win2k but do you really think any other Nintendo or Sony would ever fork over a lil extra cash to MS for a nicely designed Windows CE or something when they could do it themselves? If I am no mistaken SEGA Dreamcast actually ran a specialized Windows CE...