Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

1 of 58 comments (clear)

  1. What bozo wrote this? by taniwha · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tried to read the Microsoft document, but when I reached the line "There is no common integrated device electronics (IDE) for Linux" I had to stop ... I couldn't stop laughing. Strangely I could swear my Linux boxes are full of IDE drives. Of course they were talking about software development infrastructure. p>

    Obviously this was written by someone who has no idea what they're talking about, and not much about computers at all, perhaps the meaphorical room full of monkeys with typewriters, or a marketting person with an MBA