Rounding out its line of recent Windows 8 releases, Microsoft has posted a community technology preview of the next Windows OS for embedded systems, Windows Embedded Standard 8. The release closely ...

Microsoft has been demonstrating a new tablet at Computex 2010. The 8.9-inch concept device uses the Windows Embedded Compact 7 operating system-- a cut-down version of Windows 7, designed for tablets ...

About three years ago, Microsoft announced the death of all older versions of Internet Explorer, including 8, 9, and 10. This left IE11 as the only supported version of the browser, which wasn't a big ...

Microsoft has finally taken the wraps off of its naming scheme for Windows 8. And while Microsoft deserves kudos for keeping things simple and giving us just two editions for x86-based systems–Windows ...

Microsoft is renaming its existing embedded Windows operating systems and supplementing them with additional offerings in key device categories, the company announced Tuesday. Windows XP Embedded will ...

On June 1, Microsoft made available to anyone interested a public test build of its Windows Embedded Compact 7 operating system, the product codenamed "Chelan." Embedded Compact 7 has been the subject ...

(Windows Consumer Electronics) Microsoft's earlier version of Windows for handheld devices and embedded systems that ran on x86, ARM, MIPS and SuperH CPUs. Introduced in 1996, Windows CE was renamed ...

It was a proto-netbook. It was a palmtop. It was a PDA. It was Windows Phone 7 but not Windows Phone 8, and then it was an embedded ghost. Its parents never seemed to know what to do with it after it ...

It's easy to forget -- as Microsoft wants you to -- that the Windows Mobile operating system is built on top of an embedded Windows CE core. Windows Mobile 6.5 seemingly is built on a customized ...

The first branding of Windows for embedded systems. Windows XP Embedded was an enhanced version of XP for PDAs, handhelds and other appliances that used the x86 CPU. It supported such features as ...