diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/CoreCLR/CorePsPlatform.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/CoreCLR/CorePsPlatform.cs
index f6accdcf54..26847b6170 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/CoreCLR/CorePsPlatform.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/CoreCLR/CorePsPlatform.cs
@@ -68,16 +68,16 @@ namespace System.Management.Automation
             }
         }
 
-        // true if cross-platform (always for this project)
-        internal static bool IsX()
+        public static const bool IsCore
         {
-#if CORECLR
-            // CoreCLR version is cross-platform
-            return true;
-#else
-            // FullCLR is not cross-platform
-            return false;
-#endif
+            get
+            {
+                #if CORECLR
+                return true;
+                #else
+                return false;
+                #endif
+            }
         }
 
         // format files
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ namespace System.Management.Automation
 
         internal static bool UsesCodeSignedAssemblies()
         {
-            return !Platform.IsX();
+            return !Platform.IsCore;
         }
 
         // This is mainly with respect to the auto-mounting of
diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/commands/utility/FormatAndOutput/common/DisplayDatabase/typeDataXmlLoader.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/commands/utility/FormatAndOutput/common/DisplayDatabase/typeDataXmlLoader.cs
index f374345224..1127b1e1dc 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/commands/utility/FormatAndOutput/common/DisplayDatabase/typeDataXmlLoader.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/commands/utility/FormatAndOutput/common/DisplayDatabase/typeDataXmlLoader.cs
@@ -1810,7 +1810,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format
 
             // optional pre-load and binding verification
             // Porting Note: DLL.resources are not currently available on Linux
-            if (!Platform.IsX() && this.VerifyStringResources)
+            if (!Platform.IsCore && this.VerifyStringResources)
             {
                 DisplayResourceManagerCache.LoadingResult result;
                 DisplayResourceManagerCache.AssemblyBindingStatus bindingStatus;
diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/CommandDiscovery.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/CommandDiscovery.cs
index 2d57504b8b..2d0e2e917e 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/CommandDiscovery.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/CommandDiscovery.cs
@@ -1323,7 +1323,7 @@ namespace System.Management.Automation
 
                         // Close the progress pane that may have popped up from analyzing UNC paths.
                         // Porting note: we don't like this message
-                        if (!Platform.IsX() && context.CurrentCommandProcessor != null)
+                        if (!Platform.IsCore && context.CurrentCommandProcessor != null)
                         {
                             ProgressRecord analysisProgress = new ProgressRecord(0, Modules.ScriptAnalysisPreparing, " ");
                             analysisProgress.RecordType = ProgressRecordType.Completed;
diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/InitialSessionState.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/InitialSessionState.cs
index e4bc81a630..e1d807dcaf 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/InitialSessionState.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/InitialSessionState.cs
@@ -5648,7 +5648,7 @@ if($paths) {
                 // Porting note: the snapins still require 'ProcessorArchitecture=MSIL' in
                 // the strong name, which is not in the strong name of assemblies created
                 // by dotnet-cli
-                if (!Platform.IsX() &&
+                if (!Platform.IsCore &&
                     !string.Equals(assemblyName.FullName, psSnapInInfo.AssemblyName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                 {
                     string message = StringUtil.Format(ConsoleInfoErrorStrings.PSSnapInAssemblyNameMismatch, psSnapInInfo.AbsoluteModulePath, psSnapInInfo.AssemblyName);
diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/Modules/ModuleIntrinsics.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/Modules/ModuleIntrinsics.cs
index 3243b074d4..6fe29f7e8f 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/Modules/ModuleIntrinsics.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/Modules/ModuleIntrinsics.cs
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ namespace System.Management.Automation
 
                 // Porting note: Open PowerShell has a Modules folder in the the application base path which contains the built-in modules
                 // It must be in the front of the path no matter what.
-                if (Platform.IsX())
+                if (Platform.IsCore)
                 {
                     currentProcessModulePath = AddToPath(currentProcessModulePath, GetSystemwideModulePath(), 0);
                 }
diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/SecurityManagerBase.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/SecurityManagerBase.cs
index 8d89b859bc..a9120d27d2 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/SecurityManagerBase.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/SecurityManagerBase.cs
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ namespace System.Management.Automation
             // TODO:PSL this is a workaround since the exception below
             // hides the internal issue of what's going on in terms of
             // execution policy.
-            if (Platform.IsX())
+            if (Platform.IsCore)
             {
                 return;
             }
diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/Utils.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/Utils.cs
index 1c9edc414a..2c960f93ec 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/Utils.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/Utils.cs
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ namespace System.Management.Automation
         /// </exception>
         internal static string GetApplicationBase(string shellId)
         {
-            if (!Platform.IsX())
+            if (!Platform.IsCore)
             {
                 // try to get the path from the registry first
                 string result = GetApplicationBaseFromRegistry(shellId);
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ namespace System.Management.Automation
 
                 // And built-in modules
                 string progFileDir;
-                if (Platform.IsX())
+                if (Platform.IsCore)
                 {
                     progFileDir = Path.Combine(appBase, "Modules");
                 }
diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/security/SecuritySupport.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/security/SecuritySupport.cs
index 1a6b0ff4fb..755b1df4cb 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/security/SecuritySupport.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/security/SecuritySupport.cs
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ namespace System.Management.Automation
 
             // There is no signature support on non-Windows platforms (yet), when
             // execution reaches here, we are sure the file is under product folder
-            if (Platform.IsX())
+            if (Platform.IsCore)
             {
                 return true;
             }