That’s why the design it’s prepared to use this operating system on diskless devices, having a Remote Boot Manager server that contains the client operating system image and the device requires the image from that server and boots it directly from RAM or an USB device. These types of operating system have been designed for special cases and special type of devices (like the one shown on that payphone), most of them that need a “ locked-down” operating system, the smaller and secure as possible. Net Framework 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, NAP, among other features. Windows Embedded Standard contains basically the same kernel than XP Embedded with a few improvements: Silverlight. That embedded operating system is still in progress (expected for 2010) with the codename “ Quebec” that will contain most of the Vista features, like Aero, Bit locker encryption, Windows Defender, etc.

This version it’s not actually the embedded version of Windows Vista. Microsoft recently released Windows Embedded Standard 2009 that will succeed Windows XP Embedded.

– Secure operating systems with selected features installed we can reduce at minimum the attack surface. – Small footprint: Around 40mb at minimum for Windows. – Componentized version of the bigger operating system, with only the components that the user requires. Windows XP Embedded and several others have been a part of tons of devices for various reasons: Embedded operating systems have been present among us since a long time ago.

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