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Windows 2000 embedded support ending soon (March 31, 2015)


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Second post about Embedded. Fact: Embedded is used by ATM, Consumer Sales (orders, registers), Robotics assembly/packaging, etc. Business $ will not be immediately "shut off" like the Desktop/Laptop versions - those are MUCH easier to "roll out". Compare a Mainframe to a PC - BIG difference because the Mainframe has to be "tailored" to the Hardware before it even functions. Very similar scenario.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_computer_system

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/windows-embedded.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Embedded

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Second post about Embedded. Fact: Embedded is used by ATM, Consumer Sales (orders, registers), Robotics assembly/packaging, etc. Business $ will not be immediately "shut off" like the Desktop/Laptop versions - those are MUCH easier to "roll out". Compare a Mainframe to a PC - BIG difference because the Mainframe has to be "tailored" to the Hardware before it even functions. Very similar scenario.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_computer_system

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/windows-embedded.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Embedded

Just for the record, a number of "less specialized" devices may run a NT System of some kind, I know from experience how a number of LaCIE NAS, here is one:

http://www.lacie.com/us/support/support_manifest.htm?id=10271

run an XP embedded.

Unibrain used to make a NAS using Windows 2000 embedded:

http://www.eagle.co.za/display_product_1938.htm

But the relevance of *any* update on this kind of device is zero (or very near zero).

jaclaz

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