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HP unveils latest mobile hardware
News Resembling a laptop with a 12.1-inch display, the new mobile thin client will include Windows XP embedded along with 1GB of Pata flash memory. Rob Kingston, HP group manager for commercial product marketing, said that in order to maximise choice...
[July 25, 2008, 10:34]
Matalan checks out Linux tills
News Windows XP Embedded (XPe), which has a smaller footprint - The amount of memory needed to load and run the operating system and any associated libraries - may have been more suitable for the tills than the standard version of XP.
[September 27, 2005, 13:40]
Internet Explorer 8 to get anti-malware protection
News The features are designed to combat the rising tide of drive-by downloads and malicious scripts contained within carefully crafted links embedded in email and web pages. Most of the new features require systems to be running Windows Vista Service...
[July 3, 2008, 10:44]
Microsoft makes Longhorn in modules
News Microsoft sells four different versions of Windows XP for PCs -- Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, Tablet PC and Windows XP Media Centre -- with additional versions for embedded devices and 64-bit workstations.
[May 27, 2003, 16:13]
Compact Flash Drives and BIOS settings
Blog The trick with Windows XP Embedded is to turn the UDMA off before the new system image goes through its initial configuration boot-up with a newly compiled operating system image. Since then they have become excellent storage media for embedded...
[July 20, 2009, 9:10]
Coming soon: Media2Go review
Reviews Media2Go is built around Windows CE, Microsoft’s embedded operating system, which Microsoft is keen to put into a number of consumer-orientated devices. Key to the hardware’s success, Microsoft expects, will be its ability to synchronise with a...
[March 20, 2003, 15:12]
Microsoft tweaks 'shared source' for Windows CE
News But Scott Horn, marketing director for Microsoft's embedded device division, disagreed, saying that under an earlier programme the source code available to embedded developers and manufacturers "was not all of Windows CE".
[April 10, 2003, 8:20]
Junkbox Print Server Update #2
Blog When this particular SBC was current 6 to 7 years ago, Linux wasn't in the plan, it was going to run Windows XP Embedded and the Windows drivers seemed to work reasonably well. Mostly I need to have something that will allow me to keep my Windows...
[April 21, 2009, 9:54]
Office XP service pack released
News On the security side, the update includes an April fix for an Outlook email bug and June patch protecting Word and Excel from malicious code embedded in macros. Microsoft could release Windows XP Service Pack 1 as early as 28 August.
[August 21, 2002, 11:27]
Microsoft's late for a server date?
News For the first time, nearly all its operating systems will be spawned from the same code base -- even "embedded" versions for devices such as video poker machines or set-top boxes. Windows 2002's close cousin, Windows XP, is intended for use on...
[May 1, 2001, 8:56]
Windows CE .Net gets Bluetooth certification
News Bluetooth will enable a broad range of new applications for mobile devices, and being qualified by the Bluetooth SIG helps assure OEMs using Windows CE .Net that their devices will be interoperable with the wide range of other Bluetooth devices...
[October 30, 2001, 16:19]
Linux box can be embedded inside a PC
News Taiwanese hardware maker Via Technologies and US-based PC maker Mini-Box have unveiled a tiny desktop computer featuring an embedded Linux operating system. Besides desktop use, it can also be used "embedded"--housed within a larger machine to...
[April 25, 2003, 12:27]
Microsoft releases anti-Slammer tools
News SQL Server Desktop Engine 2000 is used by Microsoft and third-party software developers as a database server embedded in other applications. The utility inspects computers running the Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows XP operating systems.
[February 6, 2003, 15:02]
HP Compaq t5720 Thin Client review
Reviews Switch this to the on position and the hardware goes through the usual BIOS checks before loading the OS -- an embedded version of Windows XP (XPe) complete with Service Pack 2 -- from an image held in flash memory.
[April 18, 2006, 11:00]
SAMBA, Microsoft and the real Issue
Blog Its called Windows XP Embedded. The majority of corporate users using Windows are using XP and Win2K still. If you want proof of that statement, look at Vista, look at XP etc. It took XP nearly 7 years to reach 50% of the installed base of...
[December 29, 2007, 15:59]
Has Microsoft abandoned IE?
News In future releases of Windows, starting with the long-awaited Longhorn, Web browsing functionality will be embedded deeply within applications, reaffirming the Windows interface rather than the browser as the centre of the computing experience.
[September 30, 2004, 15:00]
Marketing Mush
Blog I've been reading a couple of books about embedded Linux. I was a little dismayed to see that they think the best way to use Windows (any version back to and including XP) is to have the system come up from "sleep" mode.
[October 17, 2008, 3:51]
Gates lays out vision for the digital decade
News Besides the main version, Microsoft in the last year released new versions of Windows XP for embedded devices, for home entertainment and for pen-based tablets. Windows XP itself has been a very important thing for us, getting Windows to run a...
[February 13, 2003, 12:28]
CES: Microsoft aims to simplify wireless world
News Because CE works on a number of different types of devices, Microsoft's approach also means the same embedded application can be easily deployed across different kinds of hardware. One thing that's really critical is having a consistent programming...
[January 9, 2002, 17:21]
Windows 7, consistently, everywhere
Blog It was only a couple of weeks ago that the formerly code-named “Quebec” project became the Windows Embedded Standard 2011 Community Technology Preview. Kevin Dallas (for it is he) who goes by the designation of GM for the Windows Embedded Business...
[September 21, 2009, 8:24]
