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Microsoft Throws Down Embedded XP Gauntlet

Posted by timothy on from the careful-who-you-get-embedded-with dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Microsoft has published an online document entitled 'Why Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and Not Embedded Linux?', in which embedded XP is compared to Embedded Linux in eight ways. Given that fact that 'Embedded Linux' is not the product of a single dominant vendor, but rather is the result of the collaborative (and competitive) efforts of an entire market consisting of dozens of large and small companies plus thousands of individual developers, LinuxDevices.com is inviting the Embedded Linux Community to respond to 'Why Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and Not Embedded Linux?' through guest editorials and talkbacks."

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  1. Just so long... by The+Paradox · · Score: 2, Interesting
    ...as they don't use Embedded XP in stuff like pacemakers.

    Now that would give a whole new meaning to Blue Screen of Death. (Yes, I ripped that off someone else whose name I can't remember. :D)

    Seriously... the problem that *I* see with using embedded Windows is the proprietary issues. With *nix, all you do is grab yourself a kernel at no charge, hire a C programmer, strip it down, and flash it into memory. Lovely, right?

    But Windows... I don't see MS making the source to XP open so that people can make themselves good, small versions to embed into devices. Do you?

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