The future of Windows is clearly Windows 7. But what if you could get a smaller footprint, way better battery life than Vista or XP (think days, not hours), and everything else your little heart desires already? You can, and even better, you have been able to for a while.
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If you want to run it for longer than 120 days you have to shell out just shy of $1000 for the dev tools, and $90 for each install you do with your custom image.
Yeah right. Who in their right mind is going to stump up this heap of $$$$$ when you can get perfectly workable Linux Live CD's for $0.00(inc tax) or even just buy an unused XP license from Ebay?
I think the Microfost marketing drones need to get a real kick in their backside if they think this is a runner in the long term OR is this a diversionary tactic to keep a few key customers away from the Linux Live CD Camp?
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I think the article is informative, as it shows that this product exists and works.
The problem here is that MS' sales division obviously doesn't see or care for any market of hobbyists using this "specialized" software.
The base price of $1000 with another $90 per install is obviously targeted at the business market. There it actually makes sense.
Still I'm totally with you that MS misses yet another opportunity to be competetitive with GNU/Linux.
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Yes, Microsoft do care about hobbist community: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/spark/defau...
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The XP Embedded EULA clearly specifies it is never to be used as a desktop system, so it would be impossible to get this legally licensed through an authorized reseller at any cost. (Perhaps the EULA also forbids me to even speak of this product).
With Embedded, one cannot install MS Office, although openoffice.org works well. Expect to spend a few days doing the "componentized build" where the components are determined by trial and mostly error, using a SQL database, it is probably faster and easier to build a Linux distro. from source.
It's funny to see a "real world" deployment of XP Embedded on "old hardware": to get maximum compatibility, one adds all the components of XP, and it runs just as slowly. As time goes on, the code base will continue to get fixes from the common Vista/XP/7 tree and will like all MS products eventually fail to run on hardware it once ran on, despite MS's "guarantee" of 10 year support for embedded.
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