If things have gotten a bit stale in your day to day life, then you’ll be happy to know that in the first week of June we’ll have a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of our next product release ready for you to download and try out – Windows® Embedded Standard! I’m sure it’ll liven things up a bit!
What is Windows® Embedded Standard? As noted in my previous blog, it is the next generation of Windows XP Embedded. It delivers the power, familiarity, and reliability of the Windows operating system to help you rapidly configure devices that easily connect to many common industry standards and Microsoft technologies.
Our team has been working hard on getting this CTP ready and we’re looking forward to your feedback (the good, the bad and the ugly). If you’ve participated in past CTPs, then you know the drill. We’ll be sending out a mail to everyone that is registered on the Connect site as soon as the download is available. If you haven’t participated in a CTP before and are wondering what it even is, I can tell you that it’s basically a beta program. We post a download on the Connect site, and you get to install it, play around with it, try to break it, and send us your feedback. You submit bugs and suggestions through the Connect site, and it goes directly into our Product Studio database for direct review by the product team. Visit our Connect site now to register: http://connect.microsoft.com/windowsembedded.
We have a fairly short window of time for folks to give us feedback on this release, so we’d like to ask that you please allocate time in your schedule to download, try out, and give us your feedback as soon as it is available. In order to allow us enough time to review and possibly incorporate feedback into the final product, feedback should be submitted through the Connect site before July 7th, 2008.
Please stay tuned for more information! In the meantime, if you have any questions about this CTP please send mail to ewtap@microsoft.com.
- Shayna
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Sounds great! But is Windows Embedded Standard a free update for customers who already own the Windows XP Embedded tools? If not, is there an availability to upgrade at reduced costs?
I am very curious, I already registered on the connect site!
Thanks for registering on the Connect site! Unfortunately we can't release these details at this time. However, I encourage you to attend the virtual launch event on June 3rd to find out the full details on availability, licensing, etc. You can register now for the launch event at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/standardlaunch/default.mspx.
~Shayna Begun
As we previously promised on the blog, we released the Windows Embedded Standard Community Technology