As stated by Chris Satchell in September 2005, "There are going to be levels of security in this box that the hacker community has never seen before." Many security improvements were made, many of which directly came about from the failures made on the original Xbox. Because of this, the Xbox 360 was designed to be extremely secure from a software and hardware point of view. The original Xbox suffered many security flaws in both hardware and software, leading to the quick exploitation of the machine to run unsigned programs such as Linux, play backups of Xbox game discs, and develop home made games. The Alpha XeDK units were eventually replaced by the "Beta" XeDK units, which were very similar to the Xenon model Xbox 360 released in 2005.Ī major focus during the Xbox 360's development was security. This was due to the system's PowerPC 970/970fx CPU and ATI Radeon 9800 series GPU is similar to IBM's Xenon Processor and ATI's Xenos GPU, both of which were specifically designed for the Xbox 360. The earliest known sighting of the Xbox 360 "Alpha" XeDK Power Mac units was in October 2003. Before the launch of the Xbox 360, several "Alpha" development kits were spotted using Apple's Power Mac G5 hardware. The following month, IBM agreed to develop the triple-core CPU for the console. On August 12, 2003, ATI signed on to produce the graphic processing unit for the new console, a deal that was publicly announced two days later. Also that month, Peter Moore, former president of Sega of America, joined Microsoft. That month, Microsoft held an event for 400 developers in Bellevue, Washington, to recruit support for the system.
In February 2003, planning for the Xenon software platform began, and was headed by Microsoft's Vice President J Allard. Known during development as Xenon, Xbox 2, Xbox FS, Xbox Next, or NextBox, the Xbox 360 was conceived in early 2003.
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