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by rodgerd 4392 days ago
It's not just the social stuff - from my understanding it's running a modified Hyper-V to capture the core console OS. Presumably this segregates off the ability to do background downloads, implement the encryption for HDMI, and so on and so forth from the XBox gaming portion.

If you believe the rumours Dave Cutler worked on the hypervisor of the Xbox.