The Future Post
Italian site WindowsBlogItalia has uncovered two strings inside the leaked version of Windows 8. The two phrases XBOX_360_SYSTEM_CRASH andXBOX_360_SYSTEM_CRASH_RESERVED are seen in the ntoskrnl.exe file which provides the kernel and executive layers of the Windows NT (and above) kernel space, and is responsible for various system services such as hardware virtualization, process and memory management, etc. The blog notes that these error codes are not present in any previous version of Windows.
A summary of previous discovered include the sale of an alleged Durango Alpha Tower on eBay which was said to be a development kit for the next-gen Xbox, and was eventually sold for $20,100. The seller also included C+ screens of the kit’s software core, including an App packaging and deployment component (Package.appxmanifest), and a CoreApplication class exit method (Windows::ApplicationModel::Core::CoreApplication::Exit()).
With all this is mind, it does add some support to the possibility that the next Xbox could be using the SKU of Windows 8, and even Steve Ballmer himself made the general statement saying that Windows 8 makes for a great gaming system. Let’s see where this goes.
http://www.thefuturepost.com/gaming/more-news-that-next-xbox-may-be-a-modified-windows-8-pc-349.html
