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Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by ampersandrew to c/games
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Seemingly confirming the theory that "Xbox" will just be Windows going forward, at least on handhelds.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This holds true for other companies using windows on handhelds, but Microsoft has the windows source code. I think this means that there is potential for Microsoft to make a version of windows that really works efficiently, but they’d have to had learned their lesson from windows phones.

[–] irotsoma 2 points 2 weeks ago

If that happens I'd be extremely surprised. They have been really against truly modularizing Windows because of the lack of documentation partly due to the push of "agile" methodologies mixing with top down feature pushes and the effort required to create something that would support Windows applications in a way that users would understand. There are also just too many applications out there that use too many features in unintended ways, including or especially their own.