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Windows NT father joins Xbox 360’s multimedia efforts

Dave Cutler, considered by some as the father of Microsoft’s Windows NT operating system, has joined the company’s Interactive Entertainment Business group to work on the Xbox 360. The veteran software engineer, who Microsoft describes as “the key technical brain behind the 50 million lines of code constituting [Windows],” is tasked with helping grow the video game console into a home entertainment device — a key goal for the company in recent years. Microsoft has …