@meerschaum
imo I prefer game companies porting the OS. Games make the platform. Who better to make a game friendly OS then a game company.
Like it or not if it's not easy to create games we will see no major ports or originals.
Office suites ~shrug~ big deal they are only a small market when it comes to the big picture.
If games weren't such a big market you wouldn't see microsoft hopping in like they did. Seriously what's it tell you they didn't even use thier standard kernel for the XBox it's modified. :-D