Why make a level when you can make an operating system? That's the question posed by four PlayStation users that banded together to develop the world's first operating system of-sorts within the PS3's LittleBigPlanet game.

Why make a level when you can make an operating system? That's the question posed by PlayStation users "Boss_Mob," "SaggySackBoy," "tomatenbrei," and "daFRED94," who have all banded together to develop the world's first operating system of-sorts within the PS3's LittleBigPlanet game.

Using the title's built-in level creation tools, the four amateur developers have taken it upon themselves to redesign a faithful homage to the Microsoft Windows operating systemtechnically, Windows XPthat comes complete with startup sounds, a working start menu, and a recycle bin, amongst other features.

But, by "faithful homage," we don't mean "exact recreation." For the "Windows: LBP Edition," as it's called, is more of a mash-up of the two software cultures than anything else. That said, one can access various parts of the operating system in the style and manner by which they were originally designed. Pulling up "Pictures" from the start menuby using a working mouse cursor, no lessdisplays fun family portraits of the game's various Sackboy characters. You can also listen to music using a LittleBigPlanet-themed version of Windows Media Player, complete with working visualizations.

And, yes, there are games within the game itself. Windows: LBP comes with two titles of its own, similar to Windows XP's inclusion of titles like the faithful Minesweeper or Solitaire within the operating system. An Asteroids-style shooter and a dodging-falling-blocks title await those who are looking to procrastinate within a mockup of an operating system within an actual video game.

Most impressive, however, is Windows: LBP's working Internet Explorer browser. Provided you have a keyboard hooked up to your PS3, you can actually use the built-in piece of "software" to run Google searches of your very own. Don't expect to be able to do much more than that, but it's a cool feature nevertheless.

Unlike the real Windows operating system, there is indeed a way to "beat" the Windows:LBP "level," as it were. We won't spoil the ending or the method for doing so, but know that it involves a process that you wouldn't normally perform on a standard Windows PC. Not only would you be forbidden from doing so by the OS itself, but you would be extremely foolishas you'll see by the Windows: LBP reactionto do so.

The included video below shows off the "operating system" as well as the big ending. That's a spoiler alert, so watch the footage with caution if you want to explore the world of Windows: LBP entirely for yourself.