Report: Next Xbox OS based on Windows 8 'core'

[walsufnir]

Adinnieken said:

walsufnir said:

Chark said:
We all kind of knew this was going to happen. The Xbox will be a windows 8 device. That opens up a lot of connectivity possibilities and such, but damn do I hate the Metro UI. If it isn't going RT, then I wonder how much different the Xbox W8 will be.

Again, Metro is just a gui, just like the usual windows interface. They can develop whatever they want to use the system. But I also think it will be some kind of Metro, just like it is now, and I'd be fine with that.

Metro is a bit more complicated than that.  Metro is a UI, but it's also a mini OS.  A Metro app runs in Metro, not Explorer (the Desktop UI).  My guess is if they wanted to, they could cut Explorer entirely from the OS, and just run Metro.  Currently you'd lose a considerable amount of functionality, but the basic premise is true. 

Ehm, no. Common Windows apps run on Win32 API, Metro-Apps on WinRT. This is close to os but not really the os. It's another abstraction layer.
Edit: But as I read your comment once again, I think you somehow meant the same thing I did, didn't you? ;)