Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Jun 2008 08:41 UTC
Windows Embedded? Windows CE? Windows Mobile? I must admit I lost track long ago of which Windows is what in the mobile and/or embedded space, but fact is Microsoft is working hard on bringing new releases in those spaces. It's working on a new Windows XP-based Windows Embedded release, dubbed Windows Embedded Standard 2009, but the company is also working on a Windows Vista-based embedded release.
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A lot of people seem to confuse XP/Vista Embedded with Windows Mobile/CE. Embedded XP/Vista are just desktop versions stipped out of unnecessary components, you can run regular Windows apps on them, and usually vice-versa - although then can be some protection, for example for games from arcade machines (modern ones seem to mostly use XP Embedded these days) so that you can't run them on unauthorized machines.
There's still little point to have whole activation scheme but I guess OEMs will get the deals that let them skip it.