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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Member since:2005-08-07
ebasconp ponderedd...
Only if you want to spend over a thousand dollars for the privilege. The article says X86 is supported so I would imagine so long as you were willing to spend the money required and had driver support for all the hardware in the desktop you should be fine. Licensing is going to be a killer though...
--bornagainpenguin
Member since:2005-07-13
Member since:2005-07-06
As of my knowledge, you only need to install this stuff to customize your embedded system installation.
This is completely unneeded if you only need to develop *applications* for that system. Visual Studio already supports that and also supports testing your apps on simulators.
That's the reason why it is expensive: it is meant for system builders only.
As a sidenote, I understand that people would like to play with that and maybe there could be a few reasons to give that stuff away for a lower price but there would be very few cases where having that would matter (releasing various custom ROMs, for example, as it happens for Smartphones today)
I think most developers should focus on producing good apps instead of toying with systems which aren't very useful (most of them get customized by system builders anyway so you only risk to cook something which doesn't support full features of your system).
Apart of that, if you really want, you can obtain those modules very easily. And I admit that installing new ROMs on my phone has been quite fun sometimes ;-)
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2006-05-09
Is there any way to install this stuff in a common desktop PC?