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How to Demonstrate Windows XP Embedded Using Virtual PC
White Papers This paper describes how to use Microsoft Virtual PC to host a Windows XP Embedded image on your Windows XP Professional machine, and how to create the Windows XP Embedded image in a single partition, using Windows PE to transfer the image.
[October 9, 2009, 2:16]
Time to get a life, Windows eats all my free time
Blog The system starts running on a USB flash drive that is running a generic OS image compiled using Windows XP Embedded. What I discovered is that this form of Windows XP Embedded runs quite well. It requires a little more bookeeping and costs a...
[March 30, 2008, 11:40]
Creating a Windows XP Embedded Shell
White Papers Microsoft Windows XP Embedded provides the ability to build a customized operating system image which contains the components and technologies that are appropriate for your specific device. The image may contain customized device drivers and...
[January 31, 2009, 7:58]
Microsoft readies Windows Embedded 'Quebec'
News According to a slide deck available to attendees of Microsoft's TechEd Developers Conference, while Windows XP Embedded core’s minimum image size is around 40MB, Quebec’s core is expected be around 300MB — not counting all the optional add-ons...
[June 9, 2008, 9:16]
Tempest Toast, Apples and Atoms
Blog The next 2 projects are going to be "fun" projects, an embedded Linux operating system image for a touchscreen computer and a Windows XP Embedded image for the same system. I have an advantage in that the WinXP Embedded image will be just a...
[October 11, 2008, 10:03]
Building a Reliable Windows XP Embedded Platform
White Papers This white paper is targeted at developers who are new to Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and who want to get a better understanding of how to build a reliable Windows XP Embedded image on their x86 client device.
[January 31, 2009, 7:58]
Windows Operating Systems = Bloatware
Blog Windows XP though would be a better choice, and Win XP Embedded even better. I've been trying out CTP 2011 “Quebec” from Microsoft, its basically Windows 7 Embedded. Consider the Windows 7 Embedded CTP to be like a "live-DVD" type of installation...
[October 19, 2009, 5:35]
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]
Microsoft's pre-modern message puts a new face on Vista
Blog Comment Microsoft could offer a Windows XP Embedded Express like its VS2005/8 software tools and that would be extremely attractive and probably would generate a lot of interest in Windows with costing them too much.
[August 2, 2008, 20:17]
Service Pack 3 OR Surprise Package 3?
Blog It most likely has to do with the fact that I have VS2005 Standard on the system, VS2008 Express installed, Eclipse, various Web developer kits (some Microsoft, some not), FireFox 2 and Firefox Beta3-5, various C# and assemblers for Windows, and...
[June 7, 2008, 16:03]
Marketing Suggestions from an Ambivalent Windows 7 Customer
Blog The ambivalence is because I don't think it buys me much of anything I don't already have with Windows XP Pro or Embedded. The Quebec CTP 2011 is Windows 7 Embedded and I've been working with it trying to determine if there is anything my company...
[November 15, 2009, 16:13]
Microsoft releases November security bulletin
News However, these best practices don't protect you from an embedded image in an Office document, but you can mitigate that threat by not opening documents from untrusted sources. Execution", addresses some new individual vulnerabilities as well as...
[November 16, 2005, 16:00]
Apple update fixes 11 Safari security flaws
News Specifically, a memory-corruption issue exists in ImageIO's handling of embedded ICC profiles in JPEG images. This patch affects users of Windows XP or Vista. This patch affects users of Windows XP or Vista.
[November 14, 2008, 11:23]
Experts warn of JPEG-based virus attack
News Easynews announced that a program that scans images posted to Internet newsgroups had registered several hits, finding false JPEG images embedded with malicious code. The JPEG flaw affects various versions of at least a dozen Microsoft software...
[September 29, 2004, 8:55]
Acrobat 9 review
Reviews Acrobat Pro Extended users can convert eight formats, including MOV and WMV files, to Flash content that can be embedded within PDFs alongside audio content and even 3D models. An embedded Flash movie will appear in a PDF as a clickable box.
[June 26, 2008, 11:08]
Toshiba Satellite Pro U300 review
Reviews Beneath the keyboard is a small touchpad with vertical scroll feature embedded in its right edge. The Satellite Pro U300-14S runs Windows XP Professional, while the U300-14R can run either Windows XP Professional or Windows Vista Business — the...
[February 5, 2008, 7:17]
Windows 7 RC Cracker Jack Surprise.
Blog I've been building/debugging a special Windows XP Embedded image that depends on a bunch of code and requires a lot of time consuming processes that leave me with my hands and mind free simultaneously for chunks of time.
[June 2, 2009, 1:17]
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]
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]
