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by meritt 4770 days ago
Unlike the rest of their products, the Xbox wasn't a massive design by committee project. It was created by 4 guys from the DirectX team, effectively their own little startup within the Microsoft world.

The Xbox was also able to leverage the past ~5 years of DirectX development and PC gaming knowledge and built a OS that was very similar to Win32 minus the HAL.