With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market

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With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market - Lemmy.World

I surprised Microsoft didn’t make an Xbox-like version of Windows to flash on for these handhelds yet.

The Xbox literally runs a custom build of Windows, that runs in a Virtual Machine, on top of another custom Windows based hypervisor. Then games are run in a separate VM.

All they’d have to do is port the hypervisor to different hardware, then the rest would run on top just fine.

Do you have a source for this? Every time I’ve gone looking for details about the Xbox I’ve not found anything comprehensive.

Quick search …https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/xbox-one-8450/why-does-the-xbox-one-have-a-hypervisor-and-what-i-1437760/

Just search for Xbox hypervisor

Do you have a source for this? Every time I’ve gone looking for details about the Xbox I’ve not found anything comprehensive.

It’s spelled out in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_system_software#Xbox_S… and you can even ask Microsoft Copilot for details and it happily tells you.

Xbox system software - Wikipedia