Star Microsoft Releases Windows Embedded Standard 2009
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Oct 2008 21:49 UTC
Windows Microsoft says it has released its new embedded operating system for x86-based devices to product manufacturers. Windows Embedded Standard 2009 eschews Vista, instead combining Windows XP codebase updates with new versions of Internet Explorer, RDP (remote desktop protocol), Windows Media Player, and .NET, according to the company.
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good times
by poundsmack on Thu 16th Oct 2008 22:28 UTC
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2005-07-13

this really is a solid product that you can do pretty much anything with. its light on recourses (depending how you configure it) and can be used from simple embeded scenarios to building an OS as your gaming machine and having a base install of 300 megs or less (with full gaming capability).

Edited 2008-10-16 22:31 UTC

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RE: good times
by leos on Thu 16th Oct 2008 23:23 in reply to "good times"
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2005-09-21

... building an OS as your gaming machine and having a base install of 300 megs or less (with full gaming capability).


Why would you care about the hard drive footprint of Windows on a gaming machine? Most modern games use several gigs of space each. The footprint of Windows is completely irrelevant, especially with 500GB hard drives to be had under $100

This would be useful on a first gen netbook like the EeePC 701 though. Even on the newer models I doubt it would be worth it. Better avoid the potential hassle of missing a component and stick with regular XP.

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RE[2]: good times
by bert64 on Fri 17th Oct 2008 09:51 in reply to "RE: good times"
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2007-04-23

Not just the drive footprint, but all the background services and scheduled stuff that eats away at the cpu cycles you need for running your games...

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RE[2]: good times
by Fergy on Fri 17th Oct 2008 11:23 in reply to "RE: good times"
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2006-04-10

If I use an SSD or install the OS on an SD card. I installed Vista X64 to a 60GB SSD and I had to move te profile and pagefile to a second harddisk.

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RE[2]: good times
by poundsmack on Fri 17th Oct 2008 14:19 in reply to "RE: good times"
poundsmack Member since:
2005-07-13

you dont need all the services. and for some of us early addopters who have a high preformance laptop with only a 32 or 64 gig SSD driver space is everything. Also its not because it was neccessary, but it was because it could be done. and just like anyone here who has tried really alternative OS's (syllable, SkyOS, etc) its not for the reason of need, but more importantly its the desire to try something new. after all is it wasnt for that mind set there would likely be no linux ;)

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