Windows Embedded is the species of Windows operating systems that are built to run on hardware such as minimalist computers and control devices. Windows Embedded Standard is the flavor that is ...

Microsoft has given manufacturers the tools to make Windows the operating system for a host of consumer-oriented devices — from video game consoles to TV set-top boxes that serve as full-blown home ...

According to Microsoft, Windows Embedded Standard 2011 takes the power, familiarity, and reliability of Windows 7 and shoves it into a highly customizable and componentized form, allowing OEMs to ...

About three years ago, Microsoft announced the death of all older versions of Internet Explorer, including 8, 9, and 10. This left IE11 as the only supported version of the browser, which wasn't a big ...

(or Micro$oft decided to let the marketing hacks screw with XPE.) What really cranks the whole thing was that after going to MEDC last year, after being told by the ...

The Internet Explorer 10 browser will reach its end-of-support milestone on Feb. 11, 2020 for both Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard, Microsoft announced on Tuesday. The IE 10 ...

Ah, Windows Embedded. The Microsoft operating system that millions of devices and machines are running, typically with a custom application or skin running on top of it so that users don’t ...

It's the community technology preview of the embedded operating system once known as "Quebec." Microsoft had to release a preview and ditch the code name because the OS kept threatening to break away ...

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Rounding out its line of recent Windows 8 releases, Microsoft has posted a community technology preview of the next Windows OS for embedded systems, Windows Embedded Standard 8. The release closely ...