ABSTRACT
The OS team, led by Jon Thomason, Tracy Sharpe and Rich Pletcher was working concurrently with the hardware group. Thomason refers to his group as “a very quiet team.” In fact, they purposely didn’t give the Xbox OS any kind of a fancy name. They just called it Xbox System Software. Thomason talks about the success of the Xbox OS and how they won over developers. Jeff Henshaw says that there is some animosity about what they did in creating the Xbox OS. So the goal was to create the smallest, leanest, most efficient possible OS. Even though Thomason’s small team met, and even exceeded, their goals, how they did it is another of the many remarkable stories of how amazing things got done at Microsoft. So Thomason turned to his ace programmer to solve the multiple problems Windows presented.
