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Windows XP Embedded History |
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Wednesday, 16 March 2005
by Michel Roth
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"Windows XP Embedded can be traced back to the days of Windows NT 4.0, there were two flavors of NT 4.0, Server, and Client - a Microsoft development team based out of Israel took on the task of componentizing the operating systems and creating a set of tools around the operating systems that made it easy(ish) to create an embedded device based on the Windows NT 4.0 code base, the operating system was barely componentized, developers could choose from a small number of components - the operating systems were licensed in one of four buckets, depending on whether you were using a headless configuration of the operating system, or display based, and client, or server.
At the time that Windows NT 4.0 Embedded shipped the development work on Windows 2000 was already started, the time needed to componentize an existing operating system was looking to be about 18 months, so we decided to skip Windows 2000 (and licensed Windows 2000 with embedded restrictions to those that wanted to build embedded systems around the Windows 2000 codebase) and move directly to building an embedded version of Windows XP Professional."
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