Can the new Xbox 360 be used as a computer to run Windows XP applications? Frederick Omo-Osagie
No. The Xbox 360 uses a version of Windows NT Embedded, based on the same code as Windows XP, but it's not designed to run XP software. In any case, the Xbox 360 uses a processor based on IBM's PowerPC, as used in Apple Macs: this is not compatible with standard XP software written for Intel chips. However, Free60 is attempting to hack the Xbox 360 to run GNU/Linux and Darwin, the Unix code on which Mac OS X is based. See www.free60.org.
