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Build full-featured software to power up a variety of smart, connected, and service-oriented advanced embedded devices, while using the familiar Windows® environment.
Simplify and speed up your development process with these product features available using Windows XP Embedded.
Code Flexibility
Choose your preferred Microsoft development technology—Win32, MFC, or the .NET Framework (C#, VB). Familiar, faster development.
Design Templates
Design right away with built-in design templates for common technologies and devices – including Windows-based terminals, point of sale terminals, intelligent appliances, and others. Focus development resources on differentiating your product.
Configure and Test Easily
Build, develop, customize, and test your device with a variety of operating system development tools. Visit the Windows XP Embedded Technical Specifications page for more detail on tools and features.
Security Features
Provide enterprise-class manageability with security updates. Integrate robust security features into your device easily with Windows security features, including built-in firewalls.
Enhanced Compilers
Use the latest Visual Studio compilers that increase C++ language conformance; provide better libraries; support CRT, ATL, and MFC; and offer improved runtime security check features (/GS).
Production Quality Drivers
Choose drivers, services, and applications to include in your final embedded operating system image. Decrease driver modification and reduce OS size.
Windows, Win32 APIs
Use standard hardware and run standard off-the-shelf WIN32 applications, drivers, or services with little or no porting required.
Windows XP Embedded Enabling Features
Boot an Embedded Device Over a Network with these embedded enabling features:
Protect Disk Volumes
Enhanced Write Filter (EWF) feature helps protect the contents of disk volumes by redirecting write operations to a different storage location (overlay.)
EWF allows read-only media, including CD-ROM and Flash, to boot and run. It reduces wear and makes Compact Flash a viable option for embedded devices such as thin clients. By booting from read-only functionality, media EWF removes the need for an internal hard disk in the embedded device, reducing BOM cost and overall maintenance. Find more information about using Enhanced Write Filter in the MSDN Library.
Hibernate Once Resume Many (HORM)
Hibernate Once/Resume Many (HORM) allows devices such as thin clients to achieve an instant-on experience. Find more information about hibernation and using HORM in the MSDN Library.
Boot a Device Over a Network
Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE) protocol allows communication with the server and retrieves a boot image over a network. This provides devices that do not contain a hard disk the ability for network booting and configuration. Find more information about remote booting in the MSDN Library.
Service a Runtime Image Remotely
Device Update Agent (DUA) helps make servicing embedded devices after deployment easier. A lightweight service that performs administrative tasks such as copying files, creating registry keys, and executing processes, DUA runs on the device operating system and works by polling a specific remote or local path for a script file. Ideal for kiosks or information terminals at airports that are not necessarily inside a corporate network.
Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) is another option to service embedded devices running Windows XP Embedded. SMS manages clients in large, enterprise-level Windows environments.
Ease of Manufacturing Process
Image Clone and Reseal allows OEMs to build a one-time OS images-supporting auto configuration of the SID and machine name during installation. This System Cloning Tool provides a unique computer security ID (SID), a computer name, and potentially an IP address. Find more information on using the System Cloning Tool in the MSDN Library.
Understand the Business Value of Windows Embedded Enabling Features.
Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007
Extend Windows XP Embedded capabilities with the Windows XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007. Re-optimized OS components, enhanced servicing options, and powerful embedded-specific development tools include:
File Based Write Filter
USB Support
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